On Thursday, the EU’s 27 heads of governments finally agreed a four-year, €50 billion aid package for Ukraine, after opening negotiations on the country’s EU membership before Christmas. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had blocked EU funding for Ukraine in December, has now lifted his veto. While the horsetrading between EU member states on their level of financial and military support to Ukraine will continue for years to come, some deeper work is now getting under way to prepare the country for membership of the European Union. Ireland has been among the most vocal supporters of this process since…

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