KYIV, Dec 2 – Negotiating Fundamentals cluster 1 regarding the EU accession process with Ukraine may be opened in the first half of 2025, most likely in April-May, said Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos in a blitz interview with Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv.

"We are now preparing everything possible, doing the screening and we hope that in some time in the first half of next year we will be able to open the first cluster which is fundamentals… So, even if we do everything possible, probably it won't be earlier than April next year. But once we will start, then we will go on quickly," she said following her visit to the Ukrainian capital on December 1.