I can easily see the stupid conservative government of Poland starting some motions to leave EU(despite the fact that Poland is one of the largest beneficiaries of the EU) and if it did,then Russia would be super happy. Not saying there would be war,but if Ukraine was in EU then the whole crimea business wouldn't have happened.
Really? In terms of security NATO is a far, far bigger player than the EU will ever be. The EU may have played a part in Ukraine in terms of encouraging it to look West which annoyed Russia - but the EU is not really offering much in the way of collective security. Look at its inability to agree further sanctions on Russia (vetoed by Greece etc).
I feel like within the EU there is a certain feel of solidarity and if any EU country was attacked all other EU countries would defend it even without a military agreement. At the same time I feel that people generally have no sentiment to other Nato countries, if Ukraine was part of nato half of Europe would be asking why the hell they are paying to defend it.
