{"id":1381859,"date":"2026-04-14T14:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/germany-supports-ukraine-in-restricting-mens-travel-to-the-eu-merz\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:39:53","slug":"germany-supports-ukraine-in-restricting-mens-travel-to-the-eu-merz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/germany-supports-ukraine-in-restricting-mens-travel-to-the-eu-merz\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany supports Ukraine in restricting men&#8217;s travel to the EU \u2014 Merz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Germany supports Ukraine&#8217;s efforts to restrict the travel of men of military age to European Union countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Chancellor Friedrich Merz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q2cBFKiHON4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is absolutely necessary so that Ukraine can defend itself,\u201d the German official explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, according to him, such a step will ensure unity in Ukrainian society and help in the reconstruction process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe see tangible progress here in the interest of both sides,\u201d Merz added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among other things, the Chancellor stated that Germany wants to help Ukrainian citizens who have been granted asylum return to their homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/deportatsiia-ukraintsiv-u-nimechchyni-proponuiut-povertaty-molodykh-cholovikiv-na-batkivshchynu\/\">Germany is likely considering the option of deporting Ukrainian men<\/a> from the country when their temporary protection status expires.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, a spokesman for the European Commission stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/chy-budut-prymusovo-povertaty-ukraintsiv-pryzovnoho-viku-dodomu-vidpovid-yevrokomisii\/\">the issue of the forced return of Ukrainian men of military age who are under temporary protection in the EU is not currently being considered<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany supports Ukraine&#8217;s efforts to restrict the travel of men of military age to European Union countries. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said this during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. \u201cThis is absolutely necessary so that Ukraine can defend itself,\u201d the German official explained. In addition, according to him, such a step will ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1265010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1381859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381859","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}