{"id":451361,"date":"2026-04-24T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/04\/24\/accelera-il-processo-per-ladesione-dellucraina-in-ue-kos-integrazione-sempre-piu-fondamentale\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:10","slug":"ukraines-eu-accession-gains-momentum-as-kos-says-integration-is-increasingly-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/04\/24\/ukraines-eu-accession-gains-momentum-as-kos-says-integration-is-increasingly-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s EU accession gains momentum as Kos says \u201cintegration is increasingly essential\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delphi, by the correspondent <\/em> – Ukraine\u2019s path<\/strong> towards ever-greater integration into the European Union continues. Following the Green light for a 90 billion euro loan<\/a> to Kyiv and the EU Council’s approval of the 20th sanctions package<\/a> against Russia, the final step now remains: formal accession to the European Union. \u201cUkraine\u2019s full integration into the EU is essential: it is not just us helping Kyiv, but Ukraine helping us too, by strengthening European security,\u201d said the Commissioner for Enlargement<\/a> Marta Kos<\/strong> in an exclusive interview with Eunews<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After years marked by hardship and war, the government led by Volodymyr Zelenskyy is therefore stepping up<\/strong> the accession process. The informal summit of EU heads of state <\/a>and government, meeting in Nicosia, opened proceedings with a clear political commitment in this direction. \u201cIt is time to look ahead and prepare the next step: formally opening the first negotiating chapters<\/strong> for Ukraine\u2019s accession to the European Union,\u201d said the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the sidelines of her speech at the eleventh edition of the Delphi Economic Forum<\/a> in Greece, Commissioner Kos highlighted the progress made by Kyiv, describing it as a \u201cspecial case.\u201d \u201cThe country is on the right track. This is a unique case: when I speak of special countries, I am referring precisely to this country, which, despite being at war, is pushing ahead with reforms and is nevertheless following the accession process. I am full of admiration<\/strong> for the Ukrainian people and for their leadership, which is driving all this forward.”<\/p>\n

“It isn\u2019t always easy, but I am very pleased that the members of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine\u2019s unicameral parliament, ed.) are once again fully committed” to support the process. \u201cI spoke with the Speaker of Parliament to ensure support for further reforms,\u201d she explained, confirming that the path towards EU accession<\/strong> is<\/strong> now becoming increasingly concrete.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the release of the 90 billion euro loan to Kyiv and the approval of the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, the EU and Zelenskyy can move forward towards their next objectives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":438025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[27334,28020,28942,33394,30781,33872],"class_list":["post-451361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-enlargement","tag-adesione-ue-2-en","tag-marta-kos-en","tag-ue","tag-ukraine-in-2","tag-zelenskyy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451362,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451361\/revisions\/451362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}