Thread by @UmlandAndreas

1. Peter Dickinson​ asked for the @AtlanticCouncil about #Ukraine's main achievement since 1991. My following uncut answer was a bit broader and also about #Georgia and #Moldova.
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…

2. Post-Soviet #Ukraine’s, #Georgia’s and #Moldova’s biggest achievements have been their conclusions of Association Agreements with the #EuropeanUnion. The 2004 #OrangeRevolution was a precondition for Kyiv’s start of negotiations with Brussels in 2008.

3. The 2013-14 #RevolutionofDignity, in turn, was crucial to sign the #EU deal initialed in 2012. Ukraine’s two uprisings were necessary but not sufficient conditions for the pact’s adoption in September 2014 and ratification by July 2017.

4. A full implementation of the three agreements will arguably fulfill not only a necessary but also a sufficient condition for a soon start of Ukraine’s, Georgia’s and Moldova’s process of accession to the @EuropeanUnion36 thereafter.

5. The term “#AssociationAgreement” is a conceptual misnomer for the treaties the EU has concluded with #Ukraine, #Georgia and #Moldova. A semantically more adequate taxon could be “Integration Agreements.”
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6. That is because the three contracts go beyond other association agreements the #EU has signed with a number of countries around the world. To be sure, they do not contain explicit membership perspectives, as, for instance, Brussels's respective far older treaty with Ankara.

7. Yet, the three 2014 treaties are more comprehensive than Brussels’s previous #EuropeAgreements with several East-Central European countries which are today EU members and the EU’s Stabilization Agreements with several #WesternBalkan states that contain accession prospects.

8. A complete enactment of their large treaties will make #Ukraine, #Georgia and #Moldova parts of the #EU’s economic and legal space. At that point, a full accession of these three countries to the #EuropeanUnion would only constitute a relatively small step.
@EuropeanPravda

9. It will be difficult for #Brussels to further withhold membership perspectives for the three #European countries once they will already be deeply integrated into the #EU via their #associationagreements.
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