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“I won't be categorical, but negotiations with the Hungarians have intensified,” an interlocutor in diplomatic circles comments on reports in Western media that the US allegedly persuaded Hungary to unblock Ukraine's negotiations on joining the EU.
Ukraine had set a goal to open all clusters of EU accession negotiations this year. However, the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is blocking the opening of even the first cluster , making the blockade of Ukraine's European integration a theme of its election campaign.
