The Ukrainian facet has formally been given the negotiating place of the European Union on three clusters in Lviv, which is able to type the premise for additional technical work on Ukraine's path to EU accession.

Supply: European Pravda

Particulars: Marie Bjerre, the official answerable for enlargement within the Danish authorities (Denmark at the moment holds the presidency of the Council of the EU), introduced that Ukraine is being given all the info it wants for additional technical negotiations with the Fee instantly on three clusters: No. 1 ("Fundamentals" – this consists of points similar to democratic procedures, the rule of legislation and so forth), No. 2 ("Inside market" – that is the most important cluster) and No. 6 ("Exterior relations" – that is the best cluster, the place Ukraine is in search of to attain speedy success).

Particularly, Bjerre learn out and likewise handed over to Ukraine a doc that’s crucial for the negotiations – the EU's negotiating positions for every of those clusters. In EU terminology that is known as a Draft Widespread Place (DCP).

Till now there had been a strict ban within the EU on speaking European DCPs to candidate states earlier than negotiations on the related clusters formally start.This taboo has now been damaged at Denmark's insistence.

Furthermore, there’s already an off-the-cuff settlement with the Cypriot presidency that at first of the yr it would equally present Ukraine with the DCPs for the remaining three sectors.

The trail chosen by the EU theoretically makes it attainable for Ukraine to finish the negotiations even earlier than Viktor Orbán's veto is overcome – however provided that Ukraine implements reforms consistent with the roadmap it has acquired at the moment.

After the opening of technical negotiations, Ukraine and the EU agreed on a precedence 10-point reform plan, which incorporates provisions on anti-corruption and the rule of legislation.

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