Ireland wants Ukraine’s final EU clusters open within seven weeks. Hungary still hasn’t said yes
Budapest has raised no new minority-rights demands, Kyiv says, but it has held up the last two clusters since June.
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Days before the EU grades Ukraine, watchdogs flag trouble with a condition Brussels set for its membership
The coalition’s report, released ahead of the Commission’s 4 November assessment, also lists NABU staff suspended, charged, and detained.
“By blocking Moldova, no one is helping Ukraine,” President Maia Sandu says, as both countries wait to open their two EU negotiation clusters
Moldova’s president stops short of splitting her EU bid from Ukraine’s, but says she answers for her own country’s progress.
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy welcomes Student List’s win in Serbia and says Kyiv is “ready to keep increasing cooperation”
The party itself plan to end the trade that brought Ukraine €800 million in ammunition.
Ukraine, EU set up joint task force to fast-track anti-corruption reforms that gate membership
Brussels and Kyiv will meet to grind through the anti-corruption reforms.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies, whose independence EU made condition for membership, have clawed back $5.1 million for state budget
Detectives found that a regional branch’s inaction had put millions at risk.
For years, Hungary tied Ukraine’s whole EU course to ethnic Hungarians’ language rights. Kyiv has now passed the schooling law meant to lift the block
Hungary had blocked four stages of Ukraine’s membership process over the matter.
“Mr Putin, put an end to this senseless war”: Merz in Kyiv, with €1 billion in military aid
The chancellor said Germany is ready for talks, but Russia's attacks on Ukrainian civilians must stop.
Zelenskyy suspends prosecutor general who charged the bureau probing his own office
The agencies he accused are the ones whose independence Brussels treats as a condition of Ukraine's EU accession.
Belgium lines up a “drone deal” to tap Ukraine’s war-tested know-how
Brussels has pledged 30 F-16s and over €1 billion in aid a year. A joint drone pact is next, with both sides eyeing a signing date.
Winter aid, a free-trade target, and a food-safety pact: what Ukraine and Serbia agreed in Belgrade
Beyond the symbolism, the two sides put concrete cooperation on paper across health, energy, and trade.
Ukraine wants its office inside EU Parliament, mirroring bloc’s representation already open in Kyiv
Parliamentary diplomacy amounts to one aim: keeping legislatures across Europe and the G7 mobilized behind Ukraine as the war and the accession process both grind on.
Ukraine’s Supreme Court refused to lift Zelenskyy’s sanctions on opposition leader
The Supreme Court rejected Poroshenko's challenge to sanctions that freeze his assets and strip his state awards. He says the judges were pressured.
Ukraine’s National Pantheon plan to honor its independence heroes raises eyebrows in Poland amid EU accession perspective
Polish government figures say Ukraine’s push for a National Pantheon and related historical decisions are deepening political tensions with Warsaw.
Ukraine passes 20 reforms to unlock $3.39 billion from World Bank
The UK and Japan backed the loan, and a $2.35 billion grant fund covered the rest.
Back to business: Hungary again blocks Ukraine’s EU accession – Kyiv’s mid-July deadline now at risk
Budapest opposed sending a joint EU letter to the European Council and Commission, a move requiring unanimous consent from all 27 member states.
Hungary again stalls key EU move on Ukraine and Moldova membership negotiations
Ukraine and Moldova’s EU membership path faces renewed uncertainty after Hungary stalled a key unanimous procedural move required to continue accession negotiations, according to EU diplomats.
EU leaders agree to renew Russia sanctions for a full year for the first time as Bulgaria’s pro-Russian leader vows to veto the next batch
Rumen Radev wants the Russian oil company that runs his country's only refinery struck from the list, and he objects to sanctions on a Russian Orthodox bishop.
“Poland and Ukraine need each other more than their leaders admit”— a Polish advocate for Ukraine on why the memory feud helps Moscow
Polish journalist Jerzy Wójcik, Sestry.eu co-founder, on what the UPA row is costing Ukrainians in Poland
EU approves nearly €2.8 billion for Ukraine after positive assessment of its fourth-quarter 2025 reform progress
The tranche follows the sixth payment of €2.3 billion approved in December 2025 and brings total Ukraine Facility disbursements since 2024 to €26.8 billion.