Stepping into a key position handling relations with the EU institutions in the midst of Russia\u2019s ongoing war against Ukraine, Kachka brings experience managing the details of Kyiv\u2019s bid to join the EU.<\/p>\n
Kachka was in Brussels on July 14 for the opening of a new negotiating \u201ccluster,\u201d or formal legal step on the path to membership. Despite being in talks with the EU for months, Kyiv only opened its first negotiating cluster in June after Hungary lifted a long-standing veto.<\/p>\n
Ukraine had hoped to open all six of its negotiating clusters with the EU by mid-July, but due to fresh reservations from Hungary only two of them have been opened.<\/p>\n
Speaking to POLITICO last week, Kachka voiced a \u201ccertain disappointment\u201d over the \u201clack of a feeling of urgency\u201d among some EU countries, but said that he was working closely with Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orb\u00e1n to address outstanding concerns about the rights of a Hungarian minority in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is political inertia and a lot of prejudice that still exist in Hungarian society,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why our common task is to show that the enlargement process is not undermining them [the Hungarian minority].\u201d<\/p>\n
Announcing Kachka\u2019s appointment, Zelenskyy wrote that Ukraine was awaiting decisions on four more clusters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe Taras will be able to carry out this work most effectively at Ukraine\u2019s Mission to the European Union in Brussels,\u201d he wrote, adding that Kachka would also do the job of trade representative to the EU for Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stepping into a key position handling relations with the EU institutions in the midst of Russia\u2019s ongoing war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[738,52,652,25,3119,26,152,314],"class_list":["post-18029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-enlargement","tag-hungary","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-taras-kachka","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029","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=18029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}