{"id":18282,"date":"2025-04-14T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18282\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:08:11","slug":"ukraine-can-only-join-eu-after-war-says-incoming-german-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18282\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine can only join EU after war, says incoming German chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Merz. Photo: picture alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Designated German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that Ukraine will be able to become a member of the EU or NATO only after the war is over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Merz in an interview with German newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/politik\/deutschland\/friedrich-merz-trump-erhoeht-das-risiko-dass-die-naechste-finanzkrise-schneller-kommt-als-erwartet\/100120693.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handelsblatt<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosvoboda.org\/a\/news-merts-nato-yevrosoyuz-viyna-rosiya\/33383262.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Liberty&#8217;s Ukrainian Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> &#8220;Ukraine is a major European country, but it&#8217;s a European country in a state of war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> A country at war cannot become a member of NATO or the European Union, the politician said.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised that the commitment to join the European Union and the prospect of NATO membership remain intact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But for both of these events to happen, the war must first end,&#8221; Merz said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friedrich Merz. Photo: picture alliance via Getty Images Designated German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that Ukraine will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,1824,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-18282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114334355074241975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}