Peter Magyar
At the European Council meeting, there was a four-hour debate on the adoption of the declaration. “For the first time in a year and a half, we were able to adopt a final declaration supported by all member states,” Magyar noted.
According to him, the document had been refined over the course of several weeks. In addition, “at the very last moment,” the wording regarding “accelerating accession” was removed from the text.
In June, the European Union agreed to open the first negotiation chapter on the accession of Ukraine and Moldova. As Madyar previously clarified, the positions of EU countries on the issue of further negotiations regarding Ukraine’s accession to the bloc differed significantly.
He emphasized that some member states advocated for the immediate opening of two new negotiation chapters with Ukraine, while others favored opening all 33 chapters. Hungary, he said, is among the countries that consider a slower, phased process to be necessary.
