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Podcast: MCC Podcast
Episode: Ukraine’s fast-track EU membership request (Rodrigo Ballester and Bálint L. Tóth)
Description: In the latest edition of the MCC Podcast series, Bálint L. Tóth from the Center for Political Science asked Rodrigo Ballester, Head of the Centre for European Studies at Mathias Corvinus Collegium about the legal aspects and possible political consequences of Ukraine’s fast-track EU membership request.On the 28th of February, four days after Russian forces attacked his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy presented an official appeal to the EU for “immediate” membership under a special protocol. However, EU officials and the member states appear to be divided on the speed with which Kyiv should j...