{"id":1455209,"date":"2026-10-20T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hungary-opposed-the-opening-of-clusters-4-and-5-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:54:43","slug":"hungary-opposed-the-opening-of-clusters-4-and-5-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/hungary-opposed-the-opening-of-clusters-4-and-5-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary opposed the opening of clusters 4 and 5 to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hungary has once again blocked Ukraine&#8217;s progress in negotiations to join the European Union. Budapest refused to agree on the results of the review of the last two negotiation clusters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2026\/10\/20\/7248139\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> &#8220;European Truth&#8221; with reference to several EU diplomats familiar with the course of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p> On October 20, during a discussion in the EU Council Working Group on Enlargement (COELA), the representative of Hungary opposed the approval of the screening results of clusters No. 4 and No. 5. This hinders further preparations for their opening.<\/p>\n<p> There are two areas of negotiation:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> <strong>Cluster No. 4 \u201cGreen Agenda and Sustainable Connectivity\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 transport, energy, trans-European networks, environment and climate policy.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> <strong>Cluster No. 5 \u201cResources, Agriculture and Cohesion Policy\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 agriculture, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, fisheries, financial and budgetary issues.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> EU diplomats did not specify what arguments the Hungarian side used to explain its refusal.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on October 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-ofitsiyno-vidkryv-dva-novi-perehovorni-klastery-dlia-ukrainy\/\">the European Union officially opened two negotiation clusters for Ukraine<\/a> \u2013 No. 2 \u201cInternal Market\u201d and No. 3 \u201cCompetitiveness and Inclusive Growth\u201d. This became possible after the necessary amendments to Ukrainian education legislation were agreed.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, on October 7,<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorshchyna-dala-zelene-svitlo-na-vidkryttia-dvokh-klasteriv-dlia-ukrainy\/\">Hungary agreed to further advance these two clusters<\/a> , which it had previously blocked for several months.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary has once again blocked Ukraine&#8217;s progress in negotiations to join the European Union. Budapest refused to agree on the results of the review of the last two negotiation clusters. This was reported by &#8220;European Truth&#8221; with reference to several EU diplomats familiar with the course of the meeting. On October 20, during a discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1381603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,77339],"class_list":["post-1455209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-movement-towards-the-eu-and-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1381603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}