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Anyway. Western leftlib media celebrates now, Orbán and govt./Fidesz media are in damage control, turned on the copium pipeline. Now what Orbán added in the morning interview (at least what I found interesting) is this. Two things made him not using veto. 1. All 26 of them wanted this to happen. All 26 of them wanted to give a gesture which Ukrainians can hang onto (he really said that). 2. At the end of the membership talks the legislatures of the member states have to vote if they want to allow the candidate in or not. End up until then, there are ~75 occasion, where any member country can step on the breaks when they feel things are go against their interests. Basically it is similar what I wrote here: >>/51377/ However. I am still not sure if they shorten the process. This thing could take years - remember Turkey got candidate status in 1999 and the talks started in 2005, and now it seems they'll never join -, but perhaps they want to push Ukraine in as quick as possible. There's an article here: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-ukraine-needs-do-keep-its-eu-membership-bid-going-2023-12-15/ Which says: > LONG HAUL > Accomplishing these short-term tasks is just a fraction of the sweeping policy changes the commission recommended Ukraine make across a variety of sectors, from public administration to food safety, by the end of 2024. Do they want to finish the whole thing by this time next year? It sounds ludicrous.