VIDEO: Ukrainian President Zelensky persuaded PM Orbán in Buenos Aires?

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met and exchanged a few words as suggested by photos and footage made at the inauguration ceremony of Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, in Buenos Aires on Sunday.

Asked by MTI, Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister’s press chief, quoted Orbán as telling Zelensky that “members of the European Union are in continuous talks” concerning the subject of Ukraine’s EU integration. The talk between the two leader lasted only 20 seconds and came after they were put next to each other before taking the official inauguration photo. The government-close media says Zelensky tries to persuade Orbán to support Ukraine’s EU integration. Therefore, he uses even ‘pathetic’ methods.

⚡️President Volodymyr #Zelensky briefly spoke with the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor #Orban, during the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected President of #Argentina, as reported by European Pravda.

The details of the conversation are not known. pic.twitter.com/BJjXbPaf8A

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) December 10, 2023

Government: Ukraine’s EU accession ‘EUR 183 billion issue’

Ukraine’s EU integration “is a 70,000 billion forint issue”, yet “Brussels would make a decision with unprecedented speed and without giving sufficient information”, a state secretary of the prime minister’s cabinet office told public radio on Sunday.

Csaba Dömötör said it was not clear “why some decision makers and out of what expectations would they want to see Ukraine in the EU before other countries having a candidate status for decades.” “The most serious questions are yet to be answered,” he added.

Referring to press reports based on a leaked document Dömötör said Ukraine’s full membership would involve the EU giving 186 billion euros to that country while “Europe has already been Ukraine’s greatest financer”.

The EU “fails to provide an official answer as to how Ukraine’s membership would impact the peoples of each member state,” Dömötör insisted, adding that the leaked document suggested that “most countries now receiving subsidies from the EU would become net contributors.” As a member, Ukraine would be the EU’s largest agricultural producer and each country would see 20 percent less direct agricultural subsidies, he said. Dömötör insisted that Ukraine’s accession would serve the interests of large Ukrainian agricultural companies “often owned by businesses overseas” rather than the interests of European farmers. It has not been clarified what compensation European farmers, whose situation will become “extremely difficult”, would receive, the state secretary said.

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