Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned the Ukrainian authorities against “ambitious plans” to join the European Union within two years.
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According to the Associated Press, Orban said this while speaking on state radio.
Orban doubts that negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU will begin in the near future. He noted that all 27 EU members must unanimously support the admission of a new country to the bloc. In Hungary, this decision must be made by the country’s parliament.
When I’m in the meeting room, I don’t feel an overwhelming desire for the Hungarian parliament to vote for Ukraine to join the European Union within two years. So I would be careful with such ambitious plans,” Orbán said.
The Hungarian prime minister said the EU “will have to answer very long and difficult questions until we get to the point where we can decide whether it is worth starting negotiations at all.”
When we discuss the future of Ukraine in Brussels this fall, we will not be able to avoid the question of whether we can seriously think about membership of such a country. Is it possible to enter into negotiations with a country that is in a state of territorial war? We don’t know the size of this country’s territory as it is still at war, and we don’t know what its population is as it is fleeing. Accepting a country without knowing its parameters would be unprecedented.
Ukraine received official candidate status for EU membership in 2022. The European Commission is preparing in October to recommend that EU members begin negotiations with Ukraine regarding its accession to the EU. EU member states are expected to consider the Commission’s recommendations at a summit in December.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said earlier this week that the country’s government “will not support Ukraine on any international issue” until the linguistic rights of the Hungarian minority in western Ukraine are restored.
On April 21, Kyiv adopted a new version of the law on national minorities.
Source: Racurs
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