EU pushes Ukraine membership bid forward despite Hungary's objections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : An agricultural powerhouse and geographically important for energy, Ukraine as an EU member would also counter Russia´s influence and extend the union´s values eastward.
57% : " Ukraine must align its administration with a host of EU systems, practices and rules before joining the bloc, and the required reforms are divided into six "clusters."
55% : "It is very clear that we are 26 member countries that see a future with Ukraine in the EU.
55% : Cyprus joined the EU in 2004 as a war-divided island and could offer Ukraine a blueprint for accession.
53% : Breaking with the broader EU consensus, Budapest has also maintained close ties with Moscow.
51% : Here´s a look at the main challenges on Ukraine´s road to the European Union.
51% : Marie Bjerre, Denmark´s minister for European affairs, said the EU was moving ahead anyway.
49% : Marta Kos, the EU enlargement commissioner who led Thursday´s talks, said giving Kyiv a clear road map would help accelerate change.
47% : EU membership has become the central goal for Ukraine´s effort to anchor itself to the West as NATO prospects stall.
46% : "Ukraine will become a member of the EU, and nobody can block it." ____ Hadjicostis reported from Nicosia, Cyprus
37% : Top EU officials and diplomats meeting in Lviv, in western Ukraine, said a list of demands covering roughly half of the required reforms would allow progress while formal negotiations remain blocked by Budapest.
30% : The European Union on Thursday handed Ukraine a long list of reforms needed to join the bloc, determined to push the process forward despite the ongoing war and objections from EU member Hungary.

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