Hungary and Slovakia Could Oppose Ukraine’s EU Accession
Hungary has been adamant that it would block Ukraine’s entry into the EU or NATO until minority rights were restored.
Hungary has been adamant that it would block Ukraine’s entry into the EU or NATO until minority rights were restored.
The accession invitation comes despite Ukraine cancelling elections while it fights its war against Russia.
Foreign ministers meeting in Berlin could also be open to a more à la carte-type of integration before Ukraine and others join the bloc.
“Without normalization [of relations], there will be no European future for Serbia and Kosovo,” Borrell said.
Anti-war MEPs blamed Stoltenberg for overpromising to the Ukrainian government on NATO membership as Eastern European MEPs warned of the war’s further expansion into the region.
Aiming to turn crisis into opportunity, federalists are hoping to centralise EU powers further, compelling one Polish MEP to warn about the formation of a homogenising state.
Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said his department would summon the Russian ambassador to “protest this obvious attempt” at interference with Sweden’s NATO bid.
Commissioner Várhelyi specifically mentioned the western Balkans as a target of EU enlargement.
The decision is above all a symbolic one, as a response to Vladimir Putin who declared only a few weeks ago that the Ukrainian state had never properly existed and had no international legitimacy.
The news has provoked anger and frustration among Georgians, who deplore the preferential treatment given to Ukraine and fear that Russia will attack them again.
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