Hungary Set to Lift Veto on Ukraine's EU Membership Talks
Budapest’s move could let Ukraine advance two negotiating clusters if Kyiv passes a minority-language education bill backed by the committee, officials said.
- On October 7, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha announced that Hungary signaled it will stop blocking two EU accession negotiation clusters for Ukraine, allowing technical preparations to proceed toward formal opening.
- Budapest's cooperation remains conditional on the Verkhovna Rada passing legislation to expand education rights for national minorities. Ukraine registered the draft bill on October 1 to address concerns regarding the Hungarian-speaking community in Transcarpathia.
- Parliament plans an extraordinary session on Monday, October 12, to vote on the measure. The proposed law establishes 'national minority school status' for schools where over half of pupils study in an official EU language.
- Passage of the bill would enable EU officials to formally advance the two negotiating clusters before the European Council summit in Brussels on October 15. This creates a potential path forward for Kyiv's stalled accession process.
- Because the European Union links Ukrainian and Moldovan accession bids through a 'package approach,' Moldova's progress depends on this vote. The move reflects Prime Minister Pèter Magyar's broader pragmatic diplomatic reset with Kyiv.
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Even after the change of power in Hungary, a critical attitude towards Ukraine's accession to the EU remained.
Hungary has given the green light within the framework of COREPER for the negotiating positions on two clusters of the process of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. These are Cluster 2 “Internal Market” and Cluster 3 “Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth”, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Szybiga announced. “The process of Ukraine’s accession to the EU is progressing step by step. Ukraine and Hungary are taking steps towards each other …
The Hungarian authorities lifted Budapest's earlier veto on negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the European Union, effectively unblocking the technical preparations for the next stage of this process. This decision by Budapest will also make it possible to advance negotiations on Moldova's European integration, since the processes related to these
Hungary lifts veto on EU promotion with opening of new clusters for Ukraine - media EU ambassadors have paved the way for the start of negotiations on the single market and competitiveness<p>. Hungary has abandoned the blockade due to minority rights.</p>
Sybiha: Hungary greenlights Ukraine's negotiating positions on Internal Market and Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth clusters
Hungary has supported Ukraine's negotiating positions on two clusters regarding its accession to the European Union at the level of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER), Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha has announced.
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