Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced on Wednesday that Hungary and Ukraine had reached a “comprehensive agreement” on the linguistic, educational, cultural and political rights of the roughly 100,000 ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine’s western Zakarpattia region, and that Budapest would support opening the first negotiating cluster in Ukraine’s EU accession talks once those measures are written into Ukrainian law and reflected in its EU action plan. Magyar said that if Ukraine legislated the agreed minority measures and incorporated them into its accession action plan, “the Hungarian government will support the opening of the first negotiating cluster for Ukraine’s accession,” conditionally clearing the block that had kept Ukraine frozen at the starting gate of its membership bid for two years. JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. That cluster, covering the rule of law, democratic institutions and fundamental rights, is the gateway through which every candidate country must pass before accession talks can meaningfully progress. Magyar declared that on the minority question specifically, he had achieved what his predecessor “could not achieve in 10 years.” But what Magyar has not done is reverse predecessor Viktor Orbán’s Ukraine policy; rather, he has cashed it in. He took the minority deal, pocketed the €16.4 billion in frozen EU funds, and reset relations with Brussels. Crucially, the veto on Ukraine’s final accession to the EU did not disappear in the process.