{"id":211795,"date":"2026-05-21T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/merz-proposes-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-with-mutual-assistance\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:49:04","slug":"merz-proposes-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-with-mutual-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/merz-proposes-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-with-mutual-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz proposes &#8216;associate EU membership&#8217; for Ukraine, with mutual assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;associate membership&#8221; envisioned by Friedrich Merz would allow Ukraine to request assistance from other EU countries against a Russian attack. This, Merz says, would create a &#8220;substantial security guarantee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/21\/merz-proposes-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-with-mutual-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;associate membership&#8221; envisioned by Friedrich Merz would allow Ukraine to request assistance from other EU countries against a Russian attack. This, Merz says, would create a &#8220;substantial security guarantee&#8221;. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":211796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211795","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\/211795","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=211795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}