“Europe is so involved in a war that it does not even have an estimate of the magnitude of the costs and means necessary to achieve its military objective. I have never seen anything more irresponsible in my life,” Orban emphasized in an interview with YouTube channel Patrióta.

"We don't want anyone else to be able to make decisions about connoscription and sending our young men of draft age anywhere. We have to forget about a European army with compulsory connoscription, this is a crazy idea," Orban said in an interview with the Patriota YouTube channel.

If Weber's idea was implemented, "Hungarian families would be told from Brussels or Germany that their children would be compulsorily connoscripted into the European army and told where they would go," the Hungarian prime minister added.

“It is not expected in the near future, maybe for the next 30 years,” Scholz said at a forum.

“Perhaps in 10 years the current processes will be called a prelude to World War III. It cannot be ruled out that if things go badly and we fail to control the military psychosis developed in Brussels, the history of these years will also be an episode of the first years of the big world war,” Orban said in an interview with the YouTube channel Patrióta.

“In my opinion, European politicians think of the nuclear bomb as a tactical deterrence tool and not as something that should really be used, but what they don't consider at the beginning of a war can still happen at the end, thus worst-case scenarios can come to life,” Orban explained.

“This has been an important 12 months for the people of Georgia, including the historic achievement of EU candidate status. The next months will be critical to making this opportunity a reality,” Blinken threatened in a statement.

“The US will continue to strongly support the Georgian people's aspirations for a Euro-Atlantic future. We urge Georgia's leaders to take the steps necessary to move the country forward in the right direction,” he added.

"We have never had so many enemies inside and outside. We are living an existential point where our Europe may die — I spoke about this a few weeks ago," Macron said at an event marking the 75th anniversary of the German constitution in Berlin.

"We are living through the crisis of our democracies," he added, referring to the growing popularity of nationalist parties in Europe.

“Europe is desperately scrambling to boost its puny production of artillery shells and missiles. In January the EU admitted that it had fallen well short of its pledge to provide Ukraine with one million shells by March 2024. On March 15th it allocated €500m ($542m) to ramp up production. But the biggest bottleneck is something that was an afterthought until recently: a shortage of explosives,” the newspaper said.