{"id":63705,"date":"2026-05-09T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/63705\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:46:10","slug":"zelenskyy-ukraine-will-take-its-place-as-full-member-of-european-union-were-preparing-for-opening-of-clusters-and-further-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/63705\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy: Ukraine will take its place as full member of European Union, we\u2019re preparing for opening of clusters and further decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zelenskyy:<\/p>\n

On Europe Day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa discussed joint efforts to further Ukraine\u2019s European integration, including preparations for the opening of clusters and future decisions.<\/p>\n

“I spoke with the President of the European Council, Ant\u00f3nio Costa I am grateful for his congratulations to Ukrainians and to Ukraine on Europe Day, and for all the support Europe has provided to Ukraine during our defense in the full-scale war,” Zelenskyy said on X Saturday.<\/p>\n

The President of Ukraine emphasized that “we will defend our independence and our people\u2019s right to freely choose their path. And in doing so, we will also defend the right of all European peoples to live as they themselves wish. Russia will not succeed in breaking Europe or fracturing it \u2013 there have been many attempts, but all have failed. And none will succeed.”<\/p>\n

According to Zelenskyy, “joint work on Ukraine\u2019s further European integration \u2013 Ukraine will take its place as a full member of the European Union” was also discussed. According to him, we are now preparing for the opening of clusters and further decisions.<\/p>\n

“We also discussed recent steps in diplomacy and our arrangement, mediated by the United States, to carry out a prisoner exchange with Russia in a 1,000-for-1,000 format,” Zelenskyy added.<\/p>\n

“I thank Europe for standing with Ukraine!” he summed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Europe Day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa discussed joint efforts to further…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[428,37549,37550,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-63705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-antonio-costa","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-clusters","10":"tag-european_union","11":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116544456770508235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}