Hungary and Ukraine reach a comprehensive agreement on minority rights for Ukraine’s ethnic Hungarian community in the Zakarpattia region, announced by Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar after expert-level negotiations. The deal expands and restores linguistic, educational, cultural, and related political rights for roughly 100,000 ethnic Hungarians. Kyiv says it will codify the agreed measures into Ukrainian law and reflect them in the EU accession action plan. Hungarian officials indicate the commitment is tied to Ukraine’s EU process: Budapest signals conditional support for opening the first EU negotiating cluster for Ukraine once the rights measures are written into law. Several outlets report this agreement clears a long-standing blockage, allowing the European Union to resume membership negotiations with Ukraine, including agreement by member states to open the first phase of talks. At the same time, some coverage characterizes the change as removing a veto only on the initial step rather than ending broader Hungarian opposition to aspects of Ukraine’s accession, including efforts to fast-track the process.