Zelenskyy Sets Ambitious Goal to Open Ukraine’s All 6 EU Accession Clusters by 2025

Ukraine aims to launch negotiations on 5 or 6 EU accession clusters in 2025, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on January 15 during a meeting with the Ukrainian community in Warsaw, Poland.

Ukraine plans to open 2 to 3 EU negotiation clusters during Poland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU and then 3 more clusters in the second half of 2025 during Denmark’s Presidency of the Council.

“We understand that our Polish colleagues are ready for two of them, but we will do everything to open three. Then we have Denmark: we want to open three more clusters. But we’ll see how it goes. We have an ambitious goal to open 5-6 clusters. In principle, we can open them all this year, if we succeed. We will try to do it all,” Zelenskyy stated.

Zelenskyy announced the official commencement of Ukraine’s negotiations for EU membership on June 25, 2024, during the inaugural Inter-Governmental Conference on Ukraine’s EU accession.

On January 15, during a joint press conference with Zelenskyy, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that Russia intended to carry out terrorist attacks not only against Poland but also targeting airlines globally.