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Lessons from Hungary on Europe’s Democratic Security Future
13 May 2026
With all six negotiating clusters now informally open, Kyiv’s path to the European Union is blocked as much by a collapsing parliament as by Hungary’s persistent veto.
On 17 March Ukraine’s delegation in Brussels received from the European Union (EU) the accession conditions for the final three negotiating clusters: Cluster Three, ‘Competitiveness and Inclusive Development’; Cluster Four, ‘Green Agenda and Sustainable Connectivity’; and Cluster Five, ‘Resources, Agriculture and Cohesion Policy’.
Combined with the three clusters communicated in December 2025, Ukraine now holds, for the first time, the complete package of conditions required for EU accession. The Commission announced Tuesday that technical enlargement talks would continue regardless of Hungary’s veto on Ukraine’s EU accession.‘Now we have a clear to-do list’, the European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said following a meeting in Brussels.
The problem is who must take action on that list. A week before Kos spoke, the Verkhovna Rada — Ukraine’s parliament — failed to pass legislation on digital platform taxation required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Servant of the People faction, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ruling party, mustered only between 120 and 130 votes against a required threshold of 226.
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