Fidesz submits draft resolution opposing EU accession talks with Ukraine
Hungary’s ruling Fidesz and Christian Democrat parties have submitted to parliament a draft resolution expressing their opposition to Ukraine starting talks on its accession to the European Union, Fidesz’s group leader said on Wednesday.
The European Commission cannot apply double standards, Máté Kocsis said in a post on Facebook, arguing that candidate countries had always had to meet all of the EU’s accession criteria. “There can’t be any exceptions because of current political or ideological considerations this time, either,” he said.
“We can’t have Ukraine overtake the northern Balkan countries awaiting membership, especially without having met the conditions for starting accession talks, including those concerning the situation of minorities and the use of their mother tongue,” Kocsis said.
He said it was unclear how Ukraine’s EU membership would affect the bloc’s budget or its cohesion and common agricultural policies, so EU leaders would have to discuss this “as a step zero”. Member states need to reach a consensus on this issue, but they aren’t there yet, he added.
Kocsis said that because it was impossible to take a responsible decision on the start of Ukraine’s EU accession talks, the ruling parties were asking the government to represent this stance in the European Council and EU institutions.
The proposed resolution published on parliament’s website says the European Commission’s proposal for starting accession talks with Ukraine is not well-prepared, inconsistent and does not take into consideration Hungary’s fundamental interests. It says parliament considers it necessary to hold a strategic debate on the EU’s Ukraine policy, adding that accession talks are “untimely” before this debate is settled.
The draft resolution adds that Hungary’s parliament rejects all forms of political and financial pressure attempting to force Hungary to change its sovereign position.
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russia has started floating ideas about a new Austria Hungary to be a buffer state for them (including russian troops stationed there).
I bet Orban is all in on that one.
Agreed. This would be a purely political decision and an empty gesture; virtue-signalling at its worst. I wish Ukraine all the best but it has no business being anywhere near an E.U. membership until its economy strengthens exponentially and endemic corruption is definitively addressed.