All clusters in Ukraine’s EU accession negotiations could be opened as early as July, while the first cluster may be launched by the end of June.
This expectation was expressed by EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos ahead of a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“Today I will urge all the member states to, as soon as possible, formally open all the clusters,” Kos said.
She added that the first cluster, Fundamentals, could be opened during Cyprus’s presidency of the Council of the EU – meaning by the end of June – while the remaining clusters could, in her words, be opened in July.
Kos explained that much of the preparatory work had already been completed even before the formal opening of the clusters, “and now everything is ready to be formally opened.”
As previously reported by Ukrinform, on May 9, President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed steps toward Ukraine’s European integration with European Council President António Costa.
On May 4, Zelensky said after a meeting with Costa that he hoped for the swift opening of all negotiation clusters.
