All negotiation clusters for Ukraine’s accession to the EU are ready and could be opened by mid-July, according to Taras Kachka, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration. Speaking at a joint press conference in Kyiv with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretary General Mathias Cormann on Tuesday, Kachka said no additional decisions are required to launch the process.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “To open the clusters, we do not need to adopt any additional decisions; all five of them are ready for opening,” Kachka said. The EU officially opened the first negotiation cluster with Ukraine and Moldova on June 15 as part of the accession process. Kachka added that Ukraine expects EU member states to begin processing them immediately, with a goal of opening all five clusters before the summer recess. According to him, the procedure now depends on coordination among the 27 EU member states within the Committee of Permanent Representatives. Kachka said Ukraine sees broad political support across the bloc and that the timeline is now mainly a technical issue of implementation speed. He also disclosed a possible timeframe for accession, adding that past enlargement experiences suggest the process could take around two to two and a half years once negotiations are fully underway. “At the same time, Ukraine… is prepared for accession to the EU much better than those countries that covered this path in two to two and a half years,” he said.