🇭🇺❌🇺🇦🇪🇺 'No membership at all,' Hungary's Orbán says as he continues to block Ukraine's accession talks

Arriving at the Copenhagen summit, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said that Budapest remained opposed to the idea of accepting Ukraine as a member of the European Union.

“The Hungarians would not like to belong to the same integration format, even a military one like Nato, [or] a political economic one like European Union, with the Ukrainians. So my proposal, the Hungarian proposal is to have [a] strategic agreement [with Ukraine], not [a] membership,” he said.

“Ukraine is a heroic country. We have to support them. No question of that. The question is the form how we do that. Membership is too much,” he said.

Orbán stressed that it wasn’t his view, but “a decision of the Hungarian people.”

Repeatedly asked about his opposition, he insisted his view was there should be “no membership at all.”

“Nobody knows what will happen in 100 years … but today is obviously no, no membership, … [it] would mean, first, that war would come into the European Union; second, the money from European Union would go to Ukraine. Both [would be] bad,” he said.

He also dismissed suggestions that the bloc could change its rules on opening negotiations with new member states to circumvent the Hungarian veto.

“There is a legal, strictly settled procedure how to do it. We have to stick to that. It means unanimous decision,” he stressed.

Orbán also defended his earlier comments, in which he argued that Ukraine is no longer a sovereign country.

He said:

“They don’t have money to maintain themselves. We pay the army, we pay the public bureaucracy, we pay the pension, we pay everything. If you are paid [for] by somebody else, you’re not a sovereign country. It’s not a moral statement, it’s just a financial fact.”

The Hungarian PM also offered a bit of advice to Denmark over recent drone incursions, saying his advice would be to “shoot them down.”

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