{"id":58233,"date":"2026-06-04T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58233"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:10:05","slug":"all-eu-members-greenlight-first-step-in-accession-talks-ukraine-pm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=58233","title":{"rendered":"All EU members greenlight first step in accession talks, Ukraine PM says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 4 &#8211; All members of the European Union agreed to open talks with Ukraine and \u200bMoldova on the first cluster of issues in their \u200caccession talks, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said early on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Fantastic news,&#8221; she wrote on X. &#8220;We are one step closer to \u200bthe EU membership: steadily moving towards our \u200bgoal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyprus, which holds the rotating presidency of \u2060the EU, said on X it had starting \u200bpreparing to formally open negotiation on the first \u200bgroup of negotiating chapters, which cover rule-of-law and democratic standards, with both countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This marks a significant milestone in \u200btheir European integration path, and sends a strong \u200bmessage of EU unity and determination,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presidency said \u200cit \u2060would work &#8220;towards finalising the discussions&#8221; for the formal opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said his country and Ukraine had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/hungary-ukraine-reach-crucial-agreement-minority-rights-pm-magyar-says-2026-06-03\/\">reached an agreement<\/a>&nbsp;on \u200bthe rights of \u200bthe 100,000-strong \u2060Hungarian minority in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magyar had previously said that agreement on the \u200blong-running dispute was essential if Budapest were \u200bto \u2060agree to Ukraine joining the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Ukraine and Moldova are pressing for membership of the 27-member \u2060EU \u200bafter more than four years \u200bof war pitting Kyiv against Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) June 4 &#8211; All members of the European Union agreed to open talks with Ukraine and \u200bMoldova on the first cluster of issues in their \u200caccession talks, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said early on Thursday. &#8220;Fantastic news,&#8221; she wrote on X. &#8220;We are one step closer to \u200bthe EU membership: steadily moving towards our \u200bgoal.&#8221; Cyprus, which holds the rotating presidency of \u2060the EU, said on X it had starting \u200bpreparing to formally open negotiation on the first \u200bgroup of negotiating chapters, which cover rule-of-law and democratic standards, with both countries. &#8220;This marks a significant milestone in \u200btheir&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58235,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58233\/revisions\/58235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}