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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Berendsen with Foreign Minister Sybiha in Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 28, 2026.
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No shortcuts for Ukraine's EU accession, Dutch FM says. Reforms key to progress

by Oleksiy Sorokin

Two points remain high on Ukraine's agenda: surviving the Russian onslaught and joining the European Union. President Volodymyr Zelensky believes the two should be tied together, with his office proposing to engrave a set date for Ukraine's EU membership in a potential peace deal with Russia. Tom Berendsen, the new Dutch foreign minister, disagrees with this approach. "If you set a date, you need to make sure that you get (everything done before) the date. It needs to be a realistic date," Be

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