“The current Hungarian government is not just anti-Ukrainian, it is anti-European, anti-NATO, [это] ally [страны-агрессора] Russia, a “Trojan horse” of Moscow and China within the European Union,” the politician believes.
According to Yatsenyuk, if the EU “pulls its feet, as it is doing now,” and does not respond to Hungary’s actions, this “could have quite dramatic consequences” for the European Union itself.
“It turns out that you can receive money from European funds, enjoy the security of NATO member countries and all European preferences, but publicly work for the enemy who opposes NATO and the European Union. And you will not get anything for it,” the former prime minister noted.
According to Yatsenyuk, this “creates incentives for others” that “this is possible.”
Context
Hungary is the only political obstacle to Ukraine’s accession to the EU, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated. In particular, Budapest is blocking the opening of negotiation clusters.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has repeatedly blocked EU sanctions against the aggressor country of the Russian Federation and met several times with the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In addition, Hungary, together with Slovakia, still continues to buy Russian oil – the only ones among all countries in the EU. On October 20, the EU Council supported a complete rejection of oil and gas from the Russian Federation, but these two countries were against it.
In October, Orban announced the collapse of the European Union.
Hungary, which depends on the 27-nation bloc for most of its trade and has modernized its economy with billions of euros in EU funds since joining two decades ago, does not currently qualify for the euro, Reuters noted.
