France could not change Hungary’s opinion towards Ukraine

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “NTV”, “Victor Orban”, the Prime Minister of Hungary, has been taking the breath of the European Union for a few days with policies that are in conflict with Brussels towards Ukraine.

Victor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, during his trip to France, once again confirmed his opposition to Ukraine’s membership in the European Union. In an interview with the French weekly Le Point, this right-wing populist said: Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. He added: “If their agriculture becomes part of EU agriculture, it will destroy it.” In addition, two-thirds of the Hungarian population opposes the start of accession talks with the country. Is. He said: “If we can bring Ukraine closer to the European Union, we will see what happens in a few years.” Orban was welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday evening. it placed. The Elysee Palace said before the talks that the two also wanted to talk about support for Ukraine. Nothing was subsequently revealed about the actual content of the conversation.

Earlier this week, Orban threatened to withdraw two major resolutions supporting Ukraine if EU Council President Charles Michel If he doesn’t remove it from the summit agenda, the EU summit in December will “fail”.

Macron then invited Orban to a working lunch to find a solution. . Diplomats suspect Orban wants to use his blockade threat to get 13 billion euros in EU funding for his country. The European Union blocked this funding due to problems with the rule of law in Hungary.

European Parliament representatives accused Orban of “blackmail”. In this interview, Orban once again took pride in solving the immigration problem in his country. “I’m the only one who built a wall,” he said. There are no immigrants in Hungary and I am proud of that. The European Union should take its own country as an example and only allow entry to people who have received permits

. Referring to other European Union countries, he said: “If you think accepting immigrants will lead to something pleasant, for example to a new society (…), then do it.” We in Hungary think that this is very dangerous.

The Prime Minister of Hungary, despite all the efforts of the European Union, in a letter to the President of the European Council, Ukraine’s accession negotiations and billions of aid from Brussels to He rejected this country and demanded that these issues be removed from the agenda of the upcoming meeting of European leaders. Brussels rejected the billions of dollars to Kiev.

Orban, referring to the meeting of the heads of European countries on December 14 and 15, warned: the obvious lack of consensus will inevitably lead to failure. will be Both decisions need unanimity.

Not long ago, in the first letter to Michel, Orban asked to review the European support for Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia.

Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, also canceled his recent trip to China because of Hungary’s stance, which is a danger to the plan to start membership negotiations with Ukraine.

However, Hungary’s leadership strongly opposes the start of accession talks with Kyiv after the European Commission approved the start of membership talks in November, and has threatened to withdraw the planned 50 billion euro financial aid. prevents Ukraine.

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