EU leaders took momentous decisions last week in Brussels as they agreed to open EU membership talks with Ukraine. For weeks Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban had threatened to block the prospect, together with the planned €50bn in aid to Ukraine as part of the review of the EU budget.
At the doorstep to the landmark EU summit on 14 December, Orban claimed Ukraine had not delive...
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Iskra Kirova is Europe and Central Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.