European Parliament APPROVES Ukraine EU candidacy… but it could be DECADES before the country joins

The European Parliament has approved Ukraine’s bid to join the EU in a vote backed by an overwhelming majority of MEPs.

Leaders of the member states will gather in Brussels later today to discuss calls to formally grant Ukraine ‘candidate status’ to join the bloc, as Russian forces slowly advance in the eastern Donbas region.

But some member states have been lukewarm about letting Ukraine join the EU, and any accession process is likely to take years if not decades. 

Ukrainian President…