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EU opens two more accession clusters with Ukraine after Kyiv passes minority-language education law
On 13 October, the EU officially opened negotiating clusters 2 (Internal Market) and 3 (Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth) in Ukraine's accession talks at the fourth Intergovernmental Conference in Luxembourg. The move followed the Verkhovna Rada's approval — by 266 of 450 MPs — and President Zelensky's same-day signing of a law guaranteeing national minorities and indigenous peoples whose languages are official EU languages the right to education in their native language alongside Ukrainian.