{"id":212353,"date":"2026-05-23T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/zelenskyy-rebuffs-merz-proposal-says-ukraine-deserves-full-eu-membership\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:49:08","slug":"zelenskyy-rebuffs-merz-proposal-says-ukraine-deserves-full-eu-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/zelenskyy-rebuffs-merz-proposal-says-ukraine-deserves-full-eu-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy rebuffs Merz proposal, says Ukraine deserves full EU membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a proposal by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to grant Kyiv a non-voting &#8220;associate membership&#8221;. Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine&#8217;s EU presence must be complete, with full rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/23\/zelenskyy-rebuffs-merz-proposal-says-ukraine-deserves-full-eu-membership\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a proposal by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to grant Kyiv a non-voting &#8220;associate membership&#8221;. Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine&#8217;s EU presence must be complete, with full rights. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":212354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212353","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\/212353","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=212353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}