{"id":119539,"date":"2023-12-15T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-agrees-to-open-ukraine-membership-talks-in-shock-win-for-kyiv\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:35:13","slug":"eu-agrees-to-open-ukraine-membership-talks-in-shock-win-for-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-agrees-to-open-ukraine-membership-talks-in-shock-win-for-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"EU agrees to open Ukraine membership talks in shock win for Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119539\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nEuropean Union leaders granted Ukraine a major political win on Thursday by agreeing to start membership negotiations at a time when its counter-offensive against Russia&#8217;s invasion has failed to make major gains and U.S. military aid has become more uncertain. EU diplomats and officials said the unexpected green light for talks took place as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban &#8211; who had for weeks said he would block such a deal &#8211; agreed to leave the room, knowing the other leaders would go ahead and vote.<\/p>\n<p>Orban confirmed that he had abstained from the vote at the EU summit on what he called a &#8220;bad decision&#8221;. It was unclear at this stage what exactly he could be getting in return. Such an unusual way to approve a decision &#8211; especially such a major one &#8211; is unheard of in Brussels, even for a place where diplomats have long been very creative about how to strike deals.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed the decision. &#8220;This is a victory for Ukraine. A victory for all of Europe. A victory that motivates, inspires, and strengthens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I congratulate every Ukrainian on this day&#8230; History is made by those who don&#8217;t get tired of fighting for freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine badly needs support from its Western allies in its nearly two-year fight against Russian forces. Its counter-offensive has failed to make major gains and the Biden administration has so far been unable to get a $60 billion aid package for Ukraine through the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said it was &#8220;a strategic decision and a day that will remain engraved in the history of our Union.&#8221; Orban had very different words to describe the decision. &#8220;Hungary&#8217;s stance is clear, Ukraine is not prepared for us to start talks on EU membership,&#8221; he said, calling the decision to start talks &#8220;irrational&#8221; and &#8220;inappropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But 26 member states were adamant that this decision must be made so Hungary decided that if 26 decide so, they should go on their own path and Hungary does not wish to participate in this bad decision,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/eu-set-summit-showdown-ukraine-with-hungarys-orban-2023-12-13\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-agrees-to-open-ukraine-membership-talks-in-shock-win-for-kyiv\/\">EU agrees to open Ukraine membership talks in shock win for Kyiv<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,274,2305,7654,1704,559],"class_list":["post-119539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu","tag-membership","tag-open","tag-talk","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}