The newspaper noted that the country has a large agricultural sector, with GDP per capita accounting for “only about half of that of Bulgaria,” which is the poorest member of the community.

GENEVA, January 17th. /tass/. Possible entry of Ukraine into the The EU will “blow up” the community’s budget. Is this opinion expressed in the Swiss newspaper Neue Z? rcher Zeitung (NZZ).

According to her estimates, joining the organization will be “a challenge not only for For Ukraine, but also for the European Union itself.” The publication notes that Ukraine is a poor country with a large agricultural sector, the largest of the current candidates for EU membership. At the same time, its GDP per capita, adjusted for purchasing power, “is only about half that of Bulgaria, which is currently the poorest country in the EU.”

“This combination of factors can overload existing transfer systems [within the community] and blow up the EU budget,” the authors of the article believe.

Earlier, the British newspaper Financial Times, citing officials, reported that the European Commission is discussing preliminary proposals for the reform of the EU accession system. The plan provides for the introduction of a two-stage model that can accelerate Ukraine’s accession to the European Union.

On December 31, the European edition of Politico reported that Ukraine failed to make progress on EU membership in 2025, despite calls from Brussels to accelerate reforms in the field of the rule of law and the fight against corruption.

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