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Ukraine hopes for EU talks as early as March

by AI | 29.Jan 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Already in March, the EU leadership and Ukraine hope to start the first negotiations on EU membership. But it still depends on Hungary.

The flag of Ukraine and the EU. Photo: Christoph Reichwein/dpa

Brussels – Ukraine formally opened its path towards the EU last summer, but is still waiting for the first so-called negotiation chapters to be opened. The plan now is for this to happen as early as March.

“This is what Sweden is pushing for. Significant progress has been made,” says EU Minister Jessica Rosencrantz after a breakfast meeting on Ukraine in Brussels on Tuesday.

However, to really initiate negotiations, all EU countries must say yes – something that is not guaranteed given the skepticism coming from especially Hungary, but also Slovakia.

The EU’s foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, who attended Tuesday’s breakfast meeting, is still hopeful.

“We have in the EU 27 different member states with 27 different democracies. It is always difficult – but in the end, we have always managed it,” says Kallas.

(January 28)