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The opening of the “Foundations” section (“cluster”) in the negotiations on accession to the EU is a very important stage, if only because it launches a mechanism for monitoring the progress of reforms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is also important that a readiness assessment (“screening”) has been launched for five more sections; they are checking their readiness for opening.<\/p>\n

But it is important to remember: chapters are difficult to open \u2013 but even more difficult to “close” \u2013 to state that the necessary changes have been made and their quality meets standards.<\/p>\n

This last point is very important. Because the EU will not allow “just anything” to be approved without reading and without discussion – and demand to “finally name a date.”<\/p>\n

They will go out of their way to accommodate you, offering comfortable working conditions. Much like in the EU, people- and results-centric.<\/p>\n

According to the “Fundamentals”, they proposed a whole new procedure, preliminary preparation (“forload”). They agreed on only 10 points of anti-corruption changes, announced them in the Kachka-Kos statement only in December… and were surprised to see that zero of them had been implemented.<\/p>\n

Now reforms are sewn into memoranda before funds are allocated. You can’t do it yourself – let’s include “conditionality”: money in exchange for reforms.<\/p>\n\t\t