Fidesz pushes claim that Brussels wants direct role in Ukraine war

Fast-tracking Ukraine into the EU is not about enlargement or peace but about Brussels getting directly involved in the war, Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch told a European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

Deutsch said Brussels bureaucrats were “forcing the war doctrine” and were “not bothered about the fate of Ukrainians”. Rather, they assumed the mantle of a “great power” and wanted a military victory “at any cost”. Yet Europeans wanted peace and rejected Ukraine’s fast-tracked EU accession “with disastrous economic consequences”, he said, noting that Hungary is holding a referendum to gauge people’s opinion on the matter.

Fidesz MEP Kinga Gál also addressed the plenary, noting that the EU has financed the war-torn country to the tune of more than EUR 150 billion while “hundreds of thousands have died” on the battlefield. “This is the failed balance sheet” of Europe’s strategy, she said.