Another Hungarian Veto Slows Ukraine's EU Accession Process
EU diplomats failed to win Hungary’s approval for Ukraine’s negotiating clusters, and the deadlock also keeps Moldova’s accession process on hold.
- On Tuesday, Sept 8, The Council of the EU's Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession failed to approve screening results for Ukraine's negotiating clusters 2 and 3, as Budapest blocked the procedural step.
- According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, obstacles to Kyiv's European Union integration efforts persist as members of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government continue to disrupt the normalization of relations between Hungary and Ukraine.
- Reasons for the delay remain unclear as Hungarian officials have not specified demands for lifting their objection, while Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi noted that Kyiv is actively pursuing dialogue to prevent artificial delays.
- Other European Union member states have refused to decouple Chisinau's accession progress from Kyiv's, maintaining a unified approach for both candidate nations despite Budapest expressing readiness to approve Moldova's screening results.
- Though Hungary previously blocked technical work on clusters 2 through 6, it later lifted its objection to Cluster 6, and Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi affirmed that Ukraine follows a merit-based approach rather than seeking an expedited track.
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The Working Group on Enlargement and for Countries Negotiating to Accession to the EU (COELA) on Tuesday again failed to approve the results of the screening, which is intended to assess Ukraine's readiness to negotiate on individual accession chapters. Hungary continues to block that decision, which requires unanimous consent from all 27 member countries.
The EU Enlargement Working Group (COELA) was unable to approve the screening results related to Chapters 2 and 3 of Ukraine’s EU accession negotiations on September 8, because Hungary continues to block the decision, writes Ukrainska Pravda, citing EU sources. On Tuesday, European diplomats tried again to convince Budapest to support the opening of the two clusters, but Hungary did not change its position. “The member states have not changed the…
The EU Council Working Group on Enlargement (COELA) again failed to approve the cluster screening results for Ukraine due to Hungary's position.
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