Pushing the EU's Boundaries: Enlargement and Foreign Policy Actorness after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Journal: JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
Year: 2023

On 23 June 2022, the European Council, acting on the Commission's recommendation, granted Ukraine the status of a candidate for European Union (EU) membership. This decision came only 4 months after Ukraine submitted its application, which, in turn, came less than a week after Russia's full-scale invasion of the country on 24 February 2022. The granting of candidate status was emblematic of the EU's strong support for Ukraine in the face of Russia's war of aggression. The speed with which it hap