{"id":11321,"date":"2023-11-08T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/european-commission-says-ukraine-is-ready-to-start-process-of-joining\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:49:41","slug":"european-commission-says-ukraine-is-ready-to-start-process-of-joining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/european-commission-says-ukraine-is-ready-to-start-process-of-joining\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission says Ukraine is ready to start process of joining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The European Union\u2019s legislative body has recommended that formal accession talks between the bloc and Ukraine should begin next year, a significant milestone in Ukraine\u2019s move toward closer integration with the West.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: \u201cToday is a historic day, because today the Commission recommends that the council opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and with Moldova.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Von der Leyen was speaking on the same day that the Commission published a report suggesting to EU member states that accession talks should finally start, nearly 18 months since the bloc accepted Ukraine as a candidate state. The same report suggests that accession talks with Moldova should also begin.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ukraine has held ambitions to join the EU\u00a0for more than a decade. In late 2013, then-President Viktor Yanukovych\u2019s decision to scrap a trade deal with the European Union and instead turn toward Russia sparked street protests and his eventual ouster,\u00a0followed in March 2014 by Russia\u2019s illegal annexation of Crimea. The aim of joining the bloc \u2013 along with NATO \u2013 has formally been part of Ukraine\u2019s constitution since 2019.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky applied for EU membership in February 2022, shortly before Russia invaded his country.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      While the decision to open negotiations with Ukraine is an important step on Zelensky\u2019s path to EU membership, talks will not begin until a set of conditions have been met. With Ukraine currently at war, it is unclear and unlikely that those conditions will be met any time soon.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s legislative body has recommended that formal accession talks between the bloc and Ukraine should begin next year, a significant milestone in Ukraine\u2019s move toward closer integration with the West. On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: \u201cToday is a historic day, because today the Commission recommends that the council <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}