"These things aren’t some secret paperwork that needs to be filed, they’re publicly visible legal reforms that make the economies and legal systems compatible w

"These things aren’t some secret paperwork that needs to be filed, they’re publicly visible legal reforms that make the economies and legal systems compatible with all the other member states." Probably a good thing that it started in 1994 with the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between them, moved on to the Joint EU–Ukraine Action Plan in 2005, and then to the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement in 2013, which didn't get signed because of Russian interference and led directly to a revolution. Oh, and then after the revolution, we got the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement. So they might not be quite ready, it's not like this has come out of nowhere, and lots of reforms haven't already happened.