{"id":1348720,"date":"2022-02-28T08:39:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348720"},"modified":"2022-02-28T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:39:30","slug":"eu-president-on-ukraine-they-belong-to-us-we-want-them-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-president-on-ukraine-they-belong-to-us-we-want-them-in\/","title":{"rendered":"EU President on Ukraine: &#039;They Belong to Us&#8230; We Want Them In&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feu-president-on-ukraine-they-belong-to-us-we-want-them-in%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348720&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238522931-e1646039102928-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The President of the European Commission has said that Ukraine belong to the European Union and that, \u201cover time\u201d, the bloc \u201cwant[s] them in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a process with Ukraine that is, for example, integrating the Ukrainian market into the Single Market; we have very close cooperation on the energy grid, for example,\u201d said President Ursula von der Leyen, who previously served as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/the-scandal-hanging-over-ursula-von-der-leyen\/\">controversial<\/a> defence minister in the government of Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K3vRnPUD1ZI\">comments<\/a> to the EU-funded Euronews organisation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo [there are] many topics where we work very closely together and indeed over time, they belong to us. They are one of us and we want them in,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged European Union leaders to allow his country to join the controversial political bloc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J1AN7qglhe\">https:\/\/t.co\/J1AN7qglhe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1498218074578857985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The European Union efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/frontline-ukraine-by-richard-sakwa-portrait-of-crisis-does-not-demonise-putin-1.2187576\">draw Ukraine into its orbit<\/a> were a key source of tension between Russia and the West ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/02\/26\/he-killed-for-the-maidan\/\">Euromaidan coup<\/a> against former Ukrainian president\u00a0Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Yanukovych, who had looked to the eastern part of Ukraine which became home to a large pro-Russia separatist movement in the wake of the Maidan, was toppled after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-25162563\">rejecting a European Union Association Agreement<\/a> in favour of a Russian deal which proved unpopular in the country\u2019s west.<\/p>\n<p>While the Euromaidan was initially viewed as something of a triumph by the EU, whose then-High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Baroness Catherine \u2018Cathy\u2019 Ashton, had <a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/archives\/ashton\/media\/statements\/docs\/2013\/131211_01_en.pdf\">attended the demonstrations<\/a> in Kyiv (Kiev), the bloc was left flatfooted when Russia not only refused to accept the Maidan government but annexed the Crimea, where the regional government also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-26606097\">rejected the new order,<\/a> and backed a separatist uprising in the Donbas \u2014 an outcome which arguably precipitated the wider war Ukraine is now embroiled in.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s current leader,\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky, has for his part called on Brussels to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/27\/ukrainian-president-calls-for-eu-membership-as-russian-invasion-intensifies\/\">grant his country full EU membership<\/a> in response to the current crisis.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the European Commission has said that Ukraine belong to the European Union and that, \u201cover time\u201d, the bloc \u201cwant[s] them in.\u201d \u201cWe have a process with 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