{"id":211890,"date":"2026-05-21T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/merzs-plan-of-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-gets-mixed-reviews\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:49:00","slug":"merzs-plan-of-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-gets-mixed-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/merzs-plan-of-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-gets-mixed-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz&#8217;s plan of &#8216;associate EU membership&#8217; for Ukraine gets mixed reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomats in Brussels are casting doubt over German Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s bold plan to grant Ukraine &#8220;associate membership&#8221;. The European Commission says any innovative solution should respect the &#8220;merit-based&#8221; nature of the multi-chapter accession process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/21\/merzs-plan-of-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-gets-mixed-reception\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomats in Brussels are casting doubt over German Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s bold plan to grant Ukraine &#8220;associate membership&#8221;. The European Commission says any innovative solution should respect the &#8220;merit-based&#8221; nature of the multi-chapter accession process. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":211891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211890","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\/211890","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=211890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}