{"id":44970,"date":"2024-03-15T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T07:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=44970"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:17:51","slug":"eu-official-armenia-can-apply-for-an-eu-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/44970\/","title":{"rendered":"EU official: Armenia can apply for an EU membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Armenia can apply for membership in the European Union, Lead Spokesperson for the External Affairs of the EU Peter Stano told Izvestiya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&ldquo;Countries have the right to strive for a better future for their people. They are free to decide how to ensure such a future. The people and the government of any European country should decide whether they want to apply for EU membership or not,&rdquo; he said in response to the question as to whether the doors of the EU are open for Armenia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He noted that when a country submits an application for membership in the EU, it is reviewed by the member states, and the decision is made &ldquo;based on the EU agreements and established standards&rdquo;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To remind, the European Parliament has approved a resolution, offering to consider the possibility of giving Armenia the status of a candidate for EU membership. The author of the resolution was the European People&rsquo;s Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia can apply for membership in the European Union, Lead Spokesperson for the External Affairs of the EU Peter Stano told Izvestiya. &ldquo;Countries have the right to strive for a better future for their people. They are free to decide how to ensure such a future. The people and the government of any European country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}