{"id":23529,"date":"2022-06-17T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T10:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23529"},"modified":"2022-06-17T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T10:17:25","slug":"european-commission-backs-ukraines-eu-candidacy-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/17\/european-commission-backs-ukraines-eu-candidacy-status\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission backs Ukraine&#8217;s EU candidacy status"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"block-62ac52528f08daac4266ad53\" class=\"block css-f3pcia reveal-slowly\">\n<p class=\"css-xry7m2\"><strong>The European Union\u2019s executive Commission has recommended that Ukraine and its neighbour, Moldova, be designated candidates for membership of the\u00a0European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xry7m2\">The announcement by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, came a day after the bloc\u2019s\u00a0most powerful leaders visited Kyiv\u00a0in a show of support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xry7m2\">From our Jennifer Rankin:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"5bc22de0-b862-401f-96b6-40d94a210fb0\" class=\" css-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement\">\n<div id=\"tweet-container-5bc22de0-b862-401f-96b6-40d94a210fb0\" class=\"css-ard5ae\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"block-62ac4f7b8f08d6171258ba9e\" class=\"block false dcr-f3pcia\"><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s executive Commission has recommended that Ukraine and its neighbour, Moldova, be designated candidates for membership of the\u00a0European Union. The announcement by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, came a day after the bloc\u2019s\u00a0most powerful leaders visited Kyiv\u00a0in a show of support. From our Jennifer Rankin:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[159,9505,6564,1195,5342,6067,3805,3457,5180,7231,10976,6238,10044],"class_list":["post-23529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-eu","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-kyiv","tag-moldova","tag-president","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-union","tag-ursula","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-von-der-leyen"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}