{"id":9010,"date":"2023-01-30T13:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=9010"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:26:56","slug":"ukraine-wants-to-join-eu-within-two-years-pm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=9010","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine wants to join EU within two years, PM says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1712\" height=\"1284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ukraine-president.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9012\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">Ukrainian prime minister,<strong>Denys Shmyhal<\/strong>, has told the Politico website that he wants the country to join the European Union within two years. It is a tight timetable that the EU is likely to find over-ambitious. He told the website:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-1vwjs1l\">\n<p>We have a very ambitious plan to join the European Union within the next two years. So we expect that this year, in 2023, we can already have this pre-entry stage of negotiations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">Shmyhal addressed the issue of corruption in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ukraine<\/a>, which has been a key concern for the EU. Politico writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-1vwjs1l\">\n<p>Shmyhal insisted that the Zelenskiy government is taking corruption seriously. \u201cWe have a zero-tolerance approach to corruption,\u201d he said, pointing to the \u201clightning speed\u201d with which officials were removed this month. \u201cUnfortunately, corruption was not born yesterday, but we are certain that we will uproot corruption,\u201d he said, openly saying that it\u2019s key to the country\u2019s EU accession path.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\">EU commissioners will be travelling to Kyiv later this week for a summit with Ukraine\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>Source : Guardian<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ukrainian prime minister,Denys Shmyhal, has told the Politico website that he wants the country to join the European Union within two years. It is a tight timetable that the EU is likely to find over-ambitious. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=9010\" title=\"Ukraine wants to join EU within two years, PM says\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,8],"tags":[2092,2089,245],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-whats-hot-on-social-media","tag-european-union","tag-uk-prime-minister","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}