EU believes that Orbán will not block actual start of accession talks with Ukraine
www.pravda.com.ua
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:36:52 +0200
The EU leadership believes that they will find a way to reach an agreement with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn so that he does not block the actual start of negotiations with Ukraine on joining the European Union.
Source Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, as reported by European Pravda Details Kallas said this in a conversation with the media after an informal breakfast organised before the meeting of the Council of the EU on general issues. The journalists asked whether Viktor Orbns position on Ukraine would be an obstacle to the actual launch of negotiations, given his statements that Ukraines accession would supposedly be an economic threat to the EU.
Quote from Kallas We have in the European Union 27 different countries and 27 different internal democracies.
So, every decision we make, we discuss and its always difficult, so I dont have any illusions that this is going to get any easier but in the end, we have always managed.
Background Earlier, European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos expressed confidence that the first and thirtyfirst clusters in negotiations with Ukraine would be opened in 2025.
On 27 January, the EU managed to push Hungary to approve the extension of economic sanctions against Russia, even though the EU had to make a concession to Budapest.
Kallas hinted that the statement on energy security, in exchange for which Hungary supported the extension of sanctions against Russia, was symbolic.
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