PM Orbán: Hungary not to yield to any pressure on Ukraine accession
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Hungary will not yield to any pressure and has a very firm position on enlargement, “no matter what the offer is,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said ahead of a European Union summit in Brussels on Thursday.
Orbán said Hungary’s position was very clear. “If we talk about enlargement, that is a merit-based, sophisticated, legal procedure,” he said.
Fielding a question on Ukraine’s EU accession, Orbán said enlargement had conditions and these had not been fulfilled. He said the European Council was not in a position to decide, adding that “we will have to return to this later, when the conditions have been met.”
“We will not budge on this no matter what the offer is”, Viktor Orbán said.
Answering a question, the prime minister said enlargement of the community was “not a theoretical issue but a legally defined process including preconditions”.
According to the European Commission, Ukraine has so far met four out of a total seven preconditions, therefore “the time has not come to talk about Ukraine’s membership”, Orbán said.
Spoiler: he budged
Good one Cliff. I saw a clip of him speak in English after the vote. He needs to cut back on the langos and suti. Each year he looks more and more Russian in appearance like one of the faceless politburo members of the 80s. Has he stopped drinking palinka and taken up vodka and caviar?