European Union to start accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova
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The European Union will start accession negotiations with Ukraine. Leaders gathered at the European Council summit took the decision unanimously. However, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán did not participate in the vote.
Viktor Orbán kept his earlier promises and did not support the start of accession negotiations with Ukraine. The Hungarian Prime Minister left the meeting room before the vote, thus allowing the remaining member states to make the decision unanimously.
The leaders gathered at the summit also expressed their support for the start of negotiations with Moldova, as well as for granting Georgia candidate status and for starting accession talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina when these two countries "achieve the necessary level of compliance with the membership criteria".
