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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 16/02/2022
· Politics

Will Hungary send soldiers to fight in Ukraine?

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Asked about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Hungary’s possible participation, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, said the incumbent government would “not send Hungarian soldiers to fight in Ukraine”. He added that the interior and defence ministries were in the process of making a detailed plan in preparation for a possible wave of refugees.

A large part of them could be heading for Poland, while both ethnic Hungarians and Ukrainians in Transcarpathia could choose to come to Hungary, he said, adding that Hungary could accommodate “tens of thousands if necessary”. He noted that under Hungary’s refugee rules “the first safe country” is supposed to provide shelter, and said “in Ukraine’s case this is Hungary”.

Replying to a question concerning a possible visit to Hungary by former US president Donald Trump before April 3, Gulyás said he had no information of that kind, adding that “the government is not organising such a visit”.

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On another subject, Gulyás said the European Commission had rejected Hungary’s reconstruction plan “because of the child protection law”, suggesting that the legislation curbed the rule of law. “The Hungarian government is concerned that the rule of law should be used as punishment for Hungary” over the contested law, he said. “The rule of law is a tool for the Left to sanction different political positions,” he said. Gulyás noted that the EU Court of Justice’s sentence was not appealable, but added that “if the ruling is applied by the European Commission in line with the European Council’s and the court’s restrictive conclusions Hungary has nothing to fear”. Answering a question about possible sanctions, he said “unless the Commission and other political forces want ot destroy the EU they will handle those tools with care”.

Concerning teachers’ demands of higher pay, Gulyás said that the government was in talks with their unions.

The government “sees the demands and considers them legitimate”, he said, adding that “a rise of at least 30 percent has been announced”.

Referring to another strike called by the unions for the second half of March, however, he said “it is like interfering with the (April 3) elections”. “You can do that but it should be considered as a political action,” Gulyás said. He also referred to the unions’ suggestion that a recent government decree concerning school services during strike actions was contrary to the strike law, Gulyás said that “the unions went ahead with a strike action deemed unlawful by a court, while the same ruling stipulates that the government should define mandatory services in a decree”.

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Answering a question if the government would assist petrol stations ailing due to a cap on fuel prices, Gulyás said the government was “not ready to use taxpayers’ money” for such purposes. He added that the government was not planning to cap the price of further products.

Responding to another question, if the government’s utility price cut programme costs “between 500 and 2,000 billion forints” this year, Gulyás said “the extra cost will be closer to the lower half of the band”, adding that state energy company MVM’s revenues were sufficient “to manage the situation”.

Concerning a question about recent remarks by Péter Márki-Zay, prime ministerial candidate of the united opposition, that he, if the opposition won the upcoming election,

would “represent communists and fascists, too”,

Gulyás said “nobody has set that goal since 1944” and insisted that nobody would have represented communists “for over 30 decades”.

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2 Comments

  1. Not Mario says:
    17/02/2022 at 10:01

    Not going to happen. Hungary does not want to stick its nose where it does not belong.

  2. mariavontheresa says:
    17/02/2022 at 20:21

    Why should Hungary protect a country that discriminates against the Hungarian minority. It is time for Hungary to sit this conflict out.
    Too much Hungarian blood has been shed over Hungary’s history.

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