{"id":1265014,"date":"2025-07-18T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/quick-eu-accession-unlikely-merz-expresses-disappointing-forecast-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:00:59","slug":"quick-eu-accession-unlikely-merz-expresses-disappointing-forecast-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/quick-eu-accession-unlikely-merz-expresses-disappointing-forecast-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick EU accession unlikely: Merz expresses disappointing forecast for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Ukraine could become an EU member before the end of the next seven-year budget cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said<\/a> this at a press conference on Friday with Romanian President Nicusor Dan in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Chancellor Merz stressed that Germany’s priority is to make efforts to end Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. After that, all attention will be focused on rebuilding the country.<\/p>\n

He confirmed that the reconstruction process would be linked to the process that would lead to Ukraine becoming a member of the European Union, but he noted that this would take several years.<\/p>\n

“This will probably not yet affect the medium-term financial prospects of the European Union,” the German Chancellor added, referring to the seven-year budget cycle of 2028-2034.<\/p>\n

Merz also said that as long as Ukraine is under attack, accession to the EU is impossible in any case.<\/p>\n

Earlier it became known that the European Union budget for the period from 2028 to 2034 allocated 100 billion euros to support Ukraine<\/a> .<\/p>\n

By the way, the European Union has made a final decision to extend temporary protection for Ukrainian citizens for another two years – until March 4, 2027<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Ukraine could become an EU member before the end of the next seven-year budget cycle. He said this at a press conference on Friday with Romanian President Nicusor Dan in Berlin. Chancellor Merz stressed that Germany’s priority is to make efforts to end Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1265009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76885],"class_list":["post-1265014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}