Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Friday’s regular interview for public service radio Kossuth Radó said that The Hungarians do not want to be in the European Union together with the Ukrainians. According to him, the fate of the Ukrainians is “to live next to Russia and be constantly in war with the Russians”. According to MTI, TASR reports this.
- Orbán rejects Ukraine membership in the EU together with Hungary.
- It proposes strategic agreements similar to Turkey or Britain.
- It criticizes the federal system for military cooperation with Ukraine.
- Greens claim that Orbán’s rhetoric is an election strategy.
- Orbán described the European War Strategy in Ukraine as faulty.
“We can’t change it and it won’t help if we take the burden of their suffering on ourselves,” He stressed the Hungarian Prime Minister. In his own words, Hungary wants to save from the war with the Russians alongside the Ukrainians in a potential federal system. “If we are in the federal system, sooner or later we will have to send soldiers and we do not want to die for Ukraine,” stressed.
Instead of membership of Ukraine in the EU, Orbán proposes a strategic agreement with Kiev similar to contracts with Turkey or Britain. Orbán’s attitude after Thursday’s summit of the European Political Community (EPC) in Copenhagen was criticized by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. She declared that “she would not allow One country, and not Viktor Orbán at all, decided on the future of Europe ”. According to Ukrainian President of Volodymyr Greeny, the Hungarian Prime Minister blocks the European integration of Ukraine because an election campaign is taking place in his country.
Orbán also criticized the European Strategy related to the war in Ukraine in Friday’s interview. According to him, it is based on the wrong judgment that Russia will run out of money before Europe and Moscow will not have enough resources to produce weapons.
Meanwhile, on the basis of this strategy, Europe would give Ukraine a large amount of money and military systems. The Russian economy would subsequently collapsed and in the country there would be uprisings. In this scenario, Russia would be forced to give up its war targets, which would allow Ukraine to get back its territories, He claims Orbán. According to the head of the Hungarian government, this is a “fatamorgan” and the whole strategy collapses, which will have serious consequences.
