{"id":28586,"date":"2026-02-16T07:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=28586"},"modified":"2026-02-23T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:45:17","slug":"kaja-kallas-eu-countries-are-not-ready-to-give-ukraine-a-membership-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/02\/kaja-kallas-eu-countries-are-not-ready-to-give-ukraine-a-membership-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaja Kallas: EU countries are not ready to give Ukraine a membership date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At the Munich Security Conference, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said member states are not ready to give Ukraine a clear date for joining the bloc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported on Feb. 15 that Kaja Kallas\u2019s remarks came after Volodymyr Zelenskiy renewed his call for a firm EU accession timeline as part of broader security guarantees in any future peace agreement with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is seeking EU membership by 2027, a target reportedly included in a 20-point peace plan discussed with the United States and the EU. Kyiv views the proposed timeline as key to securing long-term economic stability and deeper integration with the West once the war ends.<\/p>\n<p>Several European Union governments say setting a fixed date for Ukraine\u2019s membership is unrealistic, stressing that accession is merit-based and depends on progress in aligning laws with EU standards, not political promises. Some member states remain cautious, with Hungary blocking detailed talks.<\/p>\n<p>Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics, echoing Kaja Kallas, said there is no readiness to set a date and warned that Ukraine\u2019s EU bid is closely tied to whether a peace deal with Russia can be reached.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine applied for EU membership shortly after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022, aiming to cement its political and economic alignment with Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Munich Security Conference, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said member states are not ready to give Ukraine a clear date for joining the bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,982,244],"tags":[279,782,1522],"class_list":["post-28586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-international","category-europe","tag-eu","tag-ukraine","tag-membership-date"],"views":39,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28590,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28586\/revisions\/28590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}