{"id":206054,"date":"2026-04-27T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/merz-suggests-ukraines-eu-membership-may-depend-on-territorial-concessions\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:49:02","slug":"merz-suggests-ukraines-eu-membership-may-depend-on-territorial-concessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/merz-suggests-ukraines-eu-membership-may-depend-on-territorial-concessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz suggests Ukraine\u2019s EU membership may depend on territorial concessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Ukraine\u2019s proposed timeline for EU membership is unrealistic, as debate over enlargement continues to intensify. \u201cZelenskyy had the idea of joining the EU on January 1, 2027. That will not work. Even January 1, 2028, is not realistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/04\/27\/merz-suggests-ukraines-eu-membership-may-depend-on-territorial-concessions\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Ukraine\u2019s proposed timeline for EU membership is unrealistic, as debate over enlargement continues to intensify. \u201cZelenskyy had the idea of joining the EU on January 1, 2027. That will not work. Even January 1, 2028, is not realistic.&#8221; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":206055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}