{"id":37651,"date":"2023-09-13T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37651"},"modified":"2023-09-13T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T08:58:07","slug":"von-der-leyen-ukraine-has-made-great-strides-towards-eu-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/09\/13\/von-der-leyen-ukraine-has-made-great-strides-towards-eu-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen: Ukraine has made &#8216;great strides&#8217; towards EU membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ukraine has made \u201cgreat strides\u201d to join the EU since being granted candidate status in 2022, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said, offering the bloc\u2019s enduring support.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was addressing the European parliament as the bloc considers whether to grant a formal start of membership negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe know this is not an easy road,\u201d Reuters reports Von der Leyen said. \u201cAccession is merit-based. It takes hard work and leadership. But there is already a lot of progress. We have seen the great strides Ukraine has already made since.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur support to Ukraine will endure,\u201d she said in her annual policy speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"6abf42d5-6d13-4e92-83a3-10e28f164e9f\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2679daa0986ee21abd222cc2fcf534e02d91c1a1\/0_89_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen is applauded after giving her annual State of the Union address.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen is applauded after giving her annual State of the Union address. Photograph: Frederick Florin\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She promised the bloc would extend special protections granted to Ukrainian citizens who fled Russia\u2019s war, and lawmakers gave a standing ovation as Von der Leyen recounted the fate of Victoria Amelina, the Ukrainian writer and activist killed in the war against Ukraine after having sent her son to safety in Prague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has made \u201cgreat strides\u201d to join the EU since being granted candidate status in 2022, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said, offering the bloc\u2019s enduring support. She was addressing the European parliament as the bloc considers whether to grant a formal start of membership negotiations. \u201cWe know this is not an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7603,11555,159,9505,6564,2404,5563,9515,9974,8000,1198,3805,3457,10041,5180,5555,7231,10976,6238,10044,5251,10415,594,12347],"class_list":["post-37651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-activist","tag-citizens","tag-eu","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-european-parliament","tag-grant","tag-killed","tag-leadership","tag-negotiations","tag-parliament","tag-president","tag-russia","tag-speech","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-union","tag-ursula","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-von-der-leyen","tag-war","tag-work","tag-who","tag-writer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651","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=37651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37652,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37651\/revisions\/37652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}