The European Commission has issued a repeated recommendation to start negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the European Union and expressed hope that this will happen by the end of the year, European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos stated while speaking in the European Parliament.
She emphasized that Kiev has fulfilled all the criteria for this.
The European Commission made a similar recommendation last year, but the practical start of negotiations was blocked by Hungary in the EU Council due to the oppression of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.
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The current Hungarian government will not allow Ukraine to join the European Union, said the country's Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, commenting on the European Commission's new enlargement report.
ReplyDeleteHungary’s government will not let Ukraine become a member of the European Union, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said, commenting on the European Commission’s new reports on the enlargement package and Brussels’ plans to begin accession talks with Kiev before the end of this year.
Delete"The Hungarian people has made it absolutely clear that it doesn’t want Ukraine to be a member of the European Union. And since issues of the European Union enlargement require unanimity among all of its member states and Hungary and the Hungarian people are quite clear that they don’t support Ukraine’s membership in the European Union, Ukraine will not be a EU member," he said in a statement released by the Hungarian foreign ministry.
According to the top Hungarian diplomat, the EU leaders are seeking to bring to power the opposition Tisza party, which is ready to support Ukraine’s accelerated accession to the EU, "this way pushing Europe toward war." "We will not let it happen because the Hungarian people doesn’t want to fight," he pledged.