{"id":359862,"date":"2025-08-20T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359862\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:35:14","slug":"ukraine-awaits-first-step-in-eu-membership-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359862\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine awaits first step in EU membership talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine expects to begin the first stage of negotiations with the European Union (EU) on joining the 27-member state bloc, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100064760316130\/posts\/1203891471779519\/?rdid=kOmGt3k2Yy1YfeYZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This stage, called the \u201cFoundations of the EU Accession Process\u201d round, will focus on Ukraine\u2019s key commitments and reforms that are needed to move closer to EU membership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis step will help consolidate Ukraine\u2019s commitments and reforms within the roadmap and make the reform process even more consistent,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv hopes all the EU member states will support moving the process forward. Kachka also highlighted the importance of continuing the parallel accession process for Ukraine and Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 18\u201319, the deputy prime minister held a series of online meetings with European colleagues, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The main focus of the discussions was coordinating positions ahead of the informal meeting of EU ministers for European affairs, including enlargement countries, scheduled for early September in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key topic of this event will be the various aspects of EU enlargement,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"blue_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrainianworldcongress.org\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donate<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"transparent_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrainianworldcongress.org\/subscribe-for-our-latest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to our news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine expects to begin the first stage of negotiations with the European Union (EU) on joining the 27-member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-359862","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115062068045608886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359862","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=359862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}