Hungary Blocks Opening of Ukraine’s EU Accession Clusters for Third Time
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Hungary Blocks Opening of Ukraine’s EU Accession Clusters for Third Time
Hungary has again blocked the opening of two further Ukrainian EU accession clusters, marking the third failed attempt to approve the necessary screening results. The veto is less about the substance of the files than about leverage over Kyiv on Transcarpathian Hungarian rights, while Péter Magyar and Volodymyr Zelenskyy still have not held their planned bilateral meeting.
The New Hungarian Government Is Already Being Criticized in Kiev for Blocking Ukraine's EU Accession
The new Hungarian government is already being criticized in Kiev for blocking Ukraine's EU accession - They consider the delay in opening the negotiation clusters unjustified, for the third time.
According to opinions in Kiev, Ukraine has made numerous gestures to settle Hungarian-Ukrainian relations, therefore they consider it a mistake that Hungary has torpedoed the opening of all clusters of accession negotiations with the EU for the third time.
Hungary has refused to approve the reports on preliminary assessments of chapters 2 and 3 of the negotiations for accession to the EU of Ukraine. The Ukrainian portal Ukrajinszka Pravda supports it, for which the move would have effectively blocked the opening of the thematic clusters, in new obstacle to the accession of Kiev. The blockade took place during a meeting of the [...] L'articolo Why did Hungary refuse to approve the negotiations for …
Budapest refused to approve the opening of the second and third negotiating groups during a meeting of the EU Council Enlargement Working Group, reporting European media citing diplomats.
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