{"id":40950,"date":"2025-12-17T05:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/hungary-blocked-eu-enlargement-ukraine-will-not-be-able-to-start-accession-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:11:23","slug":"hungary-blocked-eu-enlargement-ukraine-will-not-be-able-to-start-accession-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/hungary-blocked-eu-enlargement-ukraine-will-not-be-able-to-start-accession-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary blocked EU enlargement: Ukraine will not be able to start accession negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary has blocked the European Union&#039;s enlargement statement, preventing Ukraine from starting EU accession negotiations. 26 EU member states support Ukraine, but Hungary did not support a positive assessment of its efforts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F12%2F17%2F1765938546-2353-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Hungary blocked EU enlargement: Ukraine will not be able to start accession negotiations\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hungary has blocked the European Union&#039;s statement on enlargement. This means that Ukraine cannot start accession negotiations with the Union. This is reported by UNN with reference to DW.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n did not support a positive assessment of Ukraine&#039;s efforts on the path of European integration.<\/p>\n<p>Other EU states confirmed that Ukraine has made progress in fulfilling Brussels&#039; requirements.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>26 member states show strong support for Ukraine, and Ukraine fulfills its obligations<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; stated Danish Minister for European Affairs Marie Bjerre<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to her, the wording regarding Ukraine in the draft statement was fair and balanced.<\/p>\n<p>German Minister for European Affairs G\u00fcnther Krichbaum called Hungary&#039;s actions &quot;increasingly destructive&quot; and accused the government in Budapest of blocking EU decisions.<\/p>\n<p>As DW writes, Hungary&#039;s veto means that Ukraine still cannot start formal negotiations on accession to the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, informal consultations on the terms of Ukraine&#039;s membership are already underway, Marie Bjerre noted. She expressed confidence that Kyiv could make very rapid progress if Hungary lifted its veto.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>Earlier it was reported that Hungarian Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 stated that Ukraine&#039;s accession to the EU would destroy Hungarian farmers and undermine food security.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is a declaration of war&quot; &#8211; Orban sharply criticized EU intentions regarding Russian assets14.12.25, 04:31 \u2022 18014 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary has blocked the European Union&#039;s enlargement statement, preventing Ukraine from starting EU accession negotiations. 26 EU member states support Ukraine, but Hungary did not support a positive assessment of its efforts. Hungary has blocked the European Union&#039;s statement on enlargement. This means that Ukraine cannot start accession negotiations with the Union. This is reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}