As long as the national government is in power, Hungary will not send weapons, money or even young people to Ukraine. According to the hirado.hu server, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said this in his annual speech on Saturday, reports the TASR correspondent in Budapest. According to Orbán, Europe has decided to go to war by 2030, so the April elections will be the last Hungarian elections before the war. The new government will have to decide on the issue of war and peace, he stated.
- Orbán declared that Hungary will not send weapons or money to Ukraine.
- He claims that the EU is acting irresponsibly and is preparing for war with Russia.
The prime minister said that Brussels decided to defeat the Russians on Ukrainian territory. “War preparations are taking place everywhere, except for Hungary and Slovakia,” he added, noting that nine countries already have compulsory military service and some have extended it to women.
“They send instructions to the population on what to do in case of war. Military spending rose sharply. Agreements were signed to send troops to Ukraine,” continued Orbán, according to whom Brussels has so far spent almost 200 billion euros on the Ukrainian war, and in December provided another 90 billion euros in the form of loans. The Hungarian prime minister called the actions of the European Union hugely irresponsible.
The Prime Minister in a speech in Buda’s multifunctional center Várkert Bazár on the domestic political situation before the April parliamentary elections declared that global corporations, especially Shell and Erste Bank, are preparing the installation of a new government in Hungary in cooperation with the Brussels elite.
Shell responded to Orbán’s words by declaring that it does not usually comment on the political statements of country leaders, but in Hungary it faces pressure for extraordinary taxes and fuel price regulations. He sees the engagement of former Shell top manager István Kapitány in the opposition as a private decision of an individual. Erste Bank noted that the banking sector in Hungary is a long-term target of Orbán’s taxes on extraordinary profits. Erste, like other banks, emphasizes its role as a stable investor and refuses to interfere in the formation of governments.
The chairman of the non-parliamentary opposition party TISZA, Péter Magyar, has long denied accusations that he is a “Brussels project”. He claims that his party is an authentic Hungarian movement that arose out of citizens’ dissatisfaction with the corruption of Fidesz. Magyar often points out that it is Orbán’s government that has created “its own oligarchy” and that his talk of sovereignty is just a smoke screen to cover the country’s economic problems.
