Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said \u2060on Wednesday that Hungary \u2060and Ukraine reached an agreement on the \u2060rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine, which could allow approval of the first cluster, or a group of negotiating chapters, in Ukraine\u2019s EU accession talks.<\/p>\n
The agreement marks a potential breakthrough in a long-running dispute over minority rights that had strained \u200cties between Budapest and Kyiv and complicated Hungary\u2019s support for Ukraine\u2019s EU ambitions.<\/p>\n
Every step of the accession process, which is divided into chapters and clusters of policy issues, requires approval from all EU members.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have achieved a breakthrough in our talks with Ukraine about the language, cultural and educational rights of the ethnic Hungarian minority,\u201d Magyar said in a social media post during an \u2060official trip to Paris.<\/p>\n
Magyar, who ousted Moscow-friendly predecessor Viktor Orban in an April election, said on Tuesday \u200cthat he was ready to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week to open a new chapter in relations if a deal was reached on minority \u200crights.<\/p>\n
Hungary\u2019s Orban concedes election defeat<\/p>\n
Warmer relations between Hungary and Ukraine are pivotal for the European Union\u2019s backing for \u2060Kyiv in Russia\u2019s \u2060war in Ukraine, with Orban having opposed the flow of billions of euros in aid to Ukraine and its EU membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said \u2060on Wednesday that Hungary \u2060and Ukraine reached an agreement on the \u2060rights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[894,892,31,52,158,65,38,791,67,895,25,26,740,35,893],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-accession-process","tag-budapest","tag-european-union","tag-hungary","tag-kyiv","tag-minority-rights","tag-moscow","tag-paris","tag-peter-magyar","tag-prime-minister","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-viktor-orban","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-warmer-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}