BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that "very difficult questions" would need to be answered before the European Union could even start membership talks with Ukraine. EU countries are due to decide in December whether to allow Ukraine to begin accession negotiations, which would require the unanimous backing of all 27 members. Diplomats have said Hungary may be an obstacle.
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, has stated that he considers Ukraine's accession to the EU unrealistic while the war continues and sees this as a problem even for the decision to start accession negotiations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Aug. 17 that he had enacted a bill on the competitive selection of candidates for judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
The issue of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union will become one of the major topics in the European community, the Head of the Ministry of European Affairs of the Czech Republic, Martin Dvořák, said in an interview with Czech publication Ceske Noviny on July 29.
the prime minister, albin kurti, of kosovo and president aleksandar vucic of serbia, the two main players in all of this, really, really do not like each other. the prime minister, albin kurti, of kosovo so we re going back to the 1990s, john. this is the language that mr kurti is using. he was involved in the kosovo liberation army. he has neverforgiven mr vucic for being a minister in the milosevic government in the 1990s. he was then very young, he was information minister in the 1990s, and he s never forgiven him for that. he does not accept mr vucic s protestations that he s changed, that he switched parties from the radicals to the progressive party, that he s pro european these days, that serbia is in eu accession negotiations. mr kurti doesn t see any of that. mr vucic views mr kurti as part of a formerly, what was formerly viewed by many countries as a terrorist organisation, the kosovo liberation army. and he makes his contempt