"Under the new plan, technical progress means Kyiv will push ahead with reforms needed to meet the EU's eligibility criteria and EU staffers will assess Ukraine's progress in aligning with EU laws and standards in areas like judicial independence. This circumvents Budapest's veto on opening formal negotiations. The EU's enlargement commissioner Marta Kos told DW she received "clear instructions" from ministers of European affairs at an informal meeting in Lviv earlier this week, to advance Ukraine's bid."
"Hungary's backing will still be required for any final decisions on membership, with unanimous support from all current members required for any new countries to join the union. "At some point, we will have to find unanimity," Kos acknowledged when pressed on the feasibility of the plan. "But for the time being, for the technical part, we can go on," she said on Friday. "Ukraine doesn't need Hungary to do the reforms. It is a transformational process for the benefit of the whole country,""
The European Commission will advance Ukraine's EU membership process at a technical level despite Hungary blocking formal accession talks. Technical progress will enable Kyiv to pursue reforms required for EU eligibility while EU staff will assess alignment with EU laws and standards, including judicial independence. The approach circumvents Budapest's veto on opening formal negotiations but preserves the requirement of unanimous member-state approval for any final accession decision. The same technical method will be applied to Moldova. EU enlargement commissioner Marta Kos received instructions from European affairs ministers in Lviv to speed the process, while declining to commit to specific accession timelines.
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