EU to open 6th negotiating cluster for Ukraine next week

The EU plans to open cluster 6 External Relations for Ukraine and Moldova at a meeting of the EU General Affairs Council in Brussels on 14 July.

Source: European Pravda, citing EU sources

Details: The Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) decided on 8 July to send Ukraine and Moldova a letter requesting their negotiating position on cluster 6 External Relations, in order to approve the EU's common negotiating position this week and open the cluster on 14 July.

"Coreper has just decided to send Ukraine (and Moldova) an official letter in which the EU requests the negotiating position for the opening of cluster 6 External Relations," one of European Pravda's sources said.

The next step will be the adoption of the EU's common negotiating positions on cluster 6 for Ukraine and Moldova, which is to be completed on the afternoon of 10 July.

Intergovernmental conferences to launch Cluster 6 are set for 14 July on the sidelines of the EU General Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, in line with the usual practice.

Background:

• On 3 July, Hungary agreed to the opening of cluster 6 for Ukraine and Moldova.
• Hungary had unilaterally blocked the approval of the screening results for clusters 2-6 for Ukraine and Moldova within the EU Council's working group on enlargement.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he hopes that Poland and Hungary would not block the opening of all clusters for Ukraine in the near future.

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