BRUSSELS: The EU on Monday moves Ukraine’s bid to join onto the next stage after a long delay — but that doesn’t mean Kyiv’s path to full membership is getting easier. Foreign ministers from the 27-nation bloc will formally kick off negotiations with Ukraine, and neighboring Moldova, on aligning with a first “cluster” of EU laws. Ukraine’s progress was stuck for some two years as Hungary’s nationalist leader Viktor Orban vetoed all progress, but his election defeat by rival Peter Magyar in April opened up the way.

The European Union has agreed to start membership talks with Ukraine next week. Ambassadors from the 27 EU nations decided that an intergovernmental conference to officially…

The European Union has agreed to start membership talks with Ukraine next week