The president of the EU made a revealing slip yesterday:
“The Ukraine belongs to us.”
(https://www.businessinsider.com/european-commission-president-says-eu-wants-ukraine-to-join-2022-2)
The Western countries ignored the 14,000 Ukrainians killed in the Donbass since 2014. Given the resource lists posted on FB that show how rich and valuable the Ukraine is, I’m pretty sure this support for the Ukraine from the Western countries is all about controlling those resources.
The EC is not the EU.....and she does no have the authority to allow a nation into the EU.