On the European Council summit on 26–27 June, EU leaders plan to approve a doc with robust messages supporting Ukraine’s progress in EU accession negotiations, significantly its readiness to open negotiation clusters. All EU members besides Hungary are anticipated to signal the doc.

Supply: a senior EU official conversant in the summit preparations in a remark to European Pravda on situation of anonymity

Particulars: The European Council will approve a doc with highly effective messages on Ukraine’s EU membership prospects, however Hungary won’t signal it.

The supply acknowledged that President of the European Council António Costa hopes the conclusions on Ukraine’s accession prospects will embrace robust messages of help, significantly concerning its readiness to open negotiation clusters. The official added that ideally, all 27 member states would signal, but it surely seems solely 26 will accomplish that.

It was additionally recalled that, beneath present EU enlargement guidelines, any progress in the direction of accession requires unanimous help from all member states.

Nonetheless, with out Hungary’s backing, Ukraine can proceed accession negotiations informally. The official defined {that a} robust message from 26 states would supply a mandate to proceed working informally.

He additional famous that António Costa would favor settlement from all 27 states, permitting Ukraine to formally advance and open the negotiation clusters for which it’s prepared, however acknowledged that that is the present actuality.

Background: As reported by European Pravda, Brussels is growing a situation for "parallel negotiations" on Ukraine’s accession to the EU to counter potential vetoes by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Learn additionally: "Plan B" for Ukraine's EU accession: how Brussels is preparing to overcome Hungary's veto

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