PM Orbán: Not in EU’s interest for Ukraine to join quickly
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Ukraine joining the EU quickly would have unforeseeable consequences and would serve neither Hungary nor the bloc’s interests, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told MPs on Wednesday.
He said it was important to hold a substantive debate on Ukraine’s accession in parliament in respect of the ruling Fidesz party’s parliamentary draft resolution on Ukraine’s accession talks.
Orbán said the debate in the Hungarian parliament could have an impact on Hungary and the EU’s future, yet a real debate in the EU had not taken place.
Ukraine, he noted, was given candidate status last year, four months after submitting its application for membership. Normally, he added, three years passed after an application was made and candidate status granted. In the case of central and eastern European states, this process took four years, he said.
Orbán noted that accession negotiations with North Macedonia were not currently taking place even though it had submitted its application for membership in 2004, while Montenegro submitted its application in 2008 and waited a year and a half to start accession talks and two years for membership. He also made similar observations about Serbia and Albania.
The prime minister said “naked partisanship” undermined the authority of EU institutions, while the role of national parliaments was enhanced. National parliaments, he added, were needed for a debate on whether it was a good idea to start accession talks with Ukraine.
The prime minister said the government’s currently standpoint — although the debate may convince it otherwise — was that Ukraine joining the EU quickly would have unforeseeable consequences and would serve neither Hungary nor the bloc’s interests.
The European Union should take its rules seriously, Orbán said. If European institutions did not take these rules seriously, the entirety of the EU would “simply cease to exist”, he said. But Ukraine’s swift accession, he said, would mean that EU institutions would be asking member states, including Hungary, “not to follow our own rules”.
As our Politicians decry: “don´t send money to Ukraine! They are so corrupt. No clue what happens to the money!”
https://www.statista.com/statistics/873736/corruption-perception-index-european-union/
Guess which country is dead last in the EU´s corruption perception index? Sort of explains the European Union´s apprehension towards… Us?
Curious as to the 2023 index? I am.
Where is the proof. It is time to stop saying Hungary is correct without proof.
The US gave $400,000+ to be used for food for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The money was stolen by employees of Zelensky’s government employees and never recovered. Now that is called heartless corruption. Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the front and dying. Money was stolen from their food budget. This item was published in American newspapers.
So, dear, dear Nobert, could you please show examples of corruption.