Ukrainian opposition leader Vitali Klitschko is attending talks with President Viktor Yanukovych.
The move from the former boxing champion's party has raised hopes of an end to the crisis gripping the eastern European country.
Mr Klitschko has been a visible presence at protests in Kiev in recent weeks which has seen clashes between thousands of demonstrators and riot police over Ukraine's possible closer links with the EU, which the opposition wants but the government has been resisting.
Police have become more violent towards protesters He earlier told protesters on Independence Square that he, nationalist leader Oleg Tyagnybok and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the head of the party of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, would be attending the talks.
"We have the impression that he (Yanukovych) is not listening to us, maybe his television is not working, maybe he is not being given the information," Mr Klitschko said.
"We want to look him in the eye and say our main demands and hear the answer."
There have been angry scenes in Independence Square Mr Yanukovych's refusal to sign the agreement for closer ties set off the protests - his deputy said the government intended to sign it but there were issues that still needed to be worked out.
"Today we're renewing preparations for the signing of an agreement," deputy PM Sergiy Arbuzov said on Thursday after talks with EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fuele.
Opposition parties accuse the government of bowing to pressure from Russia's President Vladimir Putin who, they say, is against Ukraine getting close to the EU.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian court has released all those arrested during a violent police dispersal of demonstrators near the presidential administration building, one of the demands of the opposition.
The US has threatened sanctions unless police stop their actions An appeals court spokeswoman, Olga Chaplya, said the last of nine people arrested in the December 1 clash has been released, although the criminal cases against them continue.
The opposition had set the releases as a condition for entering talks with the government and President Yanukovych has now proposed an amnesty for the protesters.
A pro-EU protester walks a fine line near riot police earlier in the week "My point of view is that we have to turn this page, announce an amnesty," he was quoted by his office as telling students.
"People who were arrested now, they should be freed. Some of them have even been convicted - they should be freed too."
Experts had earlier said time was running out for Mr Yanukovych to make a decision on a future direction for his politically volatile nation, which is split between a Ukrainian-speaking, pro-EU west and a Russian-speaking, Moscow-leaning east.
His choices are to either sign a deal with the EU that would put his ex-Soviet nation on track to eventually joining the bloc, or join a Moscow-led Customs Union, which Russia sees as a future alternative to the EU.
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