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Posted on 12/11/2025 7:18:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The European Union on Thursday handed Ukraine a long list of reforms needed to join the bloc, determined to push the process forward despite the ongoing war and objections from EU member Hungary.
Top EU officials and diplomats meeting in Lviv, in western Ukraine, said a list of demands covering roughly half of the required reforms would allow progress while formal negotiations remain blocked by Budapest.
EU membership has become the central goal for Ukraine’s effort to anchor itself to the West as NATO prospects stall.
Here’s a look at the main challenges on Ukraine’s road to the European Union.
Orbán is an obstacle for Ukraine’s ambitions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán insists accession talks shouldn’t proceed during wartime and has cited the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine and economic risks. Despite being at odds with all other member states, Hungary has stuck to that position and did not send a representative to Thursday’s meeting. Breaking with the broader EU consensus, Budapest has also maintained close ties with Moscow.
Marie Bjerre, Denmark’s minister for European affairs, said the EU was moving ahead anyway. “It is very clear that we are 26 member countries that see a future with Ukraine in the EU. It is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when,” she told reporters in Lviv.
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“EU membership has become the central goal for Ukraine’s effort to anchor itself to the West as NATO prospects stall.”
Excellent metaphor with Ukraine being an anchor pulling the EU under.
> Budapest has also maintained close ties with Moscow. <
Trust me on this. For historical reasons, Hungary has no love for Russia. None, as in zero.
However… Hungary gets much of its energy (oil and gas) from Russia. So Viktor Orbán has decided to put his country first, and do what’s best for Hungary.
If that means maintaining civil ties with Russia, so be it.
Ukraine. A corrupt and useless state tattering on complete collapse. Just like the EU. A match made in hell.
The Euros have gone full retard over Ukraine. Now pushing for EU membership as a desperate chess move in their war on Russia, when it never would have been considered beforehand.
They just cannot let it rest, and will keep pushing until something blows up in everyone’s face.
The only thing that could explain such an obsessive pathology is that big money, power and livelihoods are at stake. The wrong oxes are getting gored and simply cannot stand to lose, regardless of consequences or who is harmed, killed or bankrupted.
the EUroNazis keep trying to force WW3
but I think..think> ... PDJT is on to them
“Trust me on this. For historical reasons, Hungary has no love for Russia. None, as in zero.”
It’s interesting, Euros are allowed to roast the chestnut about the USSR occupation after WWII... the rumination and warnings and grudges never end. But Russians aren’t allowed to remember Nazism, Hungarian and Romanian troops attacking into Stalingrad, Germans and their depredations etc.
Don’t get me wrong. Hungary was reluctantly forced into WW2. Nevertheless, they don’t have clean hands.
My point is that Hungarians have no love for Russia. In fact, the 1956 uprising against the USSR is a national holiday in Hungary. It’s on October 23rd.
Hungarian prime minister Orbán has decided to put all that aside, and maintain a neutral position in the Russia/Ukraine war. I think he’s right about that.
When I click the link, I get “page unavailable.”
Title a little misleading?
“The European Union on Thursday handed Ukraine a long list of reforms needed to join the bloc”
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