The Council of the EU working group on enlargement held an extraordinary meeting in Brussels on 4 June to prepare draft EU common positions on Cluster 1, Fundamentals, for Ukraine and Moldova so they would be ready for approval by EU ambassadors on 5 June or next week.

The EU may officially open the first cluster in accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova on 15 June after Hungary signalled it would drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine's…

The issue of starting preparations for the official opening of the first EU negotiating cluster (Fundamentals) for Ukraine and Moldova has been urgently added to the agenda of a…