KYIV ¨C Senior European Union officials who visited Ukraine have delivered a stern message to Kyiv that it has a lot more to do to secure membership, while they work on overcoming Hungary¡¯s opposition to Ukrainian accession.
Ukraine needs the backing of all 27 EU countries to become a member, but Budapest is blocking it from moving to the next stage of accession negotiations, citing concerns including the language rights of ethnic Hungarians.
Hungary¡¯s stance has frustrated other EU states, and the bloc¡¯s enlargement commissioner, Marta Kos, led a high-level charm offensive in Ukraine last week, meeting the Hungarian minority in the west of the country to try to ease tensions.
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