The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he will oppose Ukraine joining the European Union as be believes it “will destroy us.”
The Hungarian broadcaster Hirado reported on Friday that Orban said he has “no idea” how Budapest would be able to “control the crime” that will flood Hungary, he claims.
Orban who is widely seen as pro-Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine joining the EU would also “destroy” Hungarian farmers and their agriculture and affect their economy.
Orban said, “It will destroy us. First of all, it will destroy Hungarian farmers and Hungarian agriculture; secondly, it will destroy the entire Hungarian national economy, and I have no idea how we will control the crime that will flood into Hungary with this.”
He said that in the future things could change but under the current conditions Ukraine joining the EU is “unthinkable.”
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The Hungarian Prime Minister has demanded that Ukraine allows gas to transit through their country to Hungary and wants eight people to be removed from the EU’s Russia sanctions list, before he will allow military aid to Kyiv and accession talks.
In December the European Union said that they “are prepared” for Kyiv to stop the flow of gas transiting through Ukraine to Hungary and Slovakia, despite the Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico warning of “serious conflict.”
As of the 1 January 2025 Ukraine stopped the flow of cheap Russian gas as President Volodymyr Zelensky will not allow Putin “to earn additional billions on our blood.”
Fico said in late December it is “unacceptable” that President Zelensky is threatening the production of electricity for their nuclear power plants in Slovakia.
For more than a year the European Commission, in coordination with the Member States have been preparing for the cheap Russian gas to be cut off by Ukraine from the beginning of January and have been ensuring there is alternative supplies for member states.
The EU spokesman said, “The European gas infrastructure is flexible enough to provide gas of non-Russian origin to Central and Eastern Europe via alternative routes. It has been reinforced with significant new LNG import capacities since 2022.”
“The impact of the end of the transit via Ukraine on the EU’s security of supply is limited,” the official added.
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