{"id":1205382,"date":"2025-08-21T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1205382"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:20:15","slug":"european-commission-confirms-ukraine-s-eu-membership-was-discussed-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/european-commission-confirms-ukraine-s-eu-membership-was-discussed-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission Confirms Ukraine\u2019s EU Membership Was Discussed with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy raised the issue of Ukraine\u2019s accession to the European Union during talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington<\/strong>, the European Commission confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spokesperson <strong>Arianna Podest\u00e0<\/strong> told reporters in Brussels that the enlargement issue was indeed discussed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cYes, European leaders discussed the possibilities of enlargement with President Trump and President Zelenskyy on Monday in Washington. European leaders, of course, emphasized the relevance of the accession process for Ukraine. This is also important in the context of discussions on security guarantees,\u201d Podest\u00e0 said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>She declined to comment on reports that President Trump had allegedly asked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n during a phone call about his reasons for blocking negotiations on Ukraine\u2019s EU membership, noting that such questions should be addressed to Trump or Orb\u00e1n directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, Podest\u00e0 reiterated the Commission\u2019s position that <strong>\u201conly Ukraine, as a sovereign state, can decide whether it wants to continue on its path to accession.\u201d<\/strong> Member states, she said, are responsible for determining whether Ukraine has met the necessary steps for joining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commission has already submitted a proposal to the EU Council to begin negotiations with Ukraine on the <strong>first accession cluster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn our view, it is important that member states allow the opening of these negotiations in the near future. We will continue to discuss this issue with them,\u201d Podest\u00e0 added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, President Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine needs <strong>security guarantees to work like NATO\u2019s Article 5<\/strong>, noting that EU membership is also viewed in Kyiv as part of these guarantees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, <strong>Hungary remains the only EU member state blocking the opening of Ukraine\u2019s first accession cluster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy raised the issue of Ukraine\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1205383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36418,13,49,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1205382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-11473-news-en-2","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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