Watch: Why is Hungary Blocking Ukraine's EU Membership Bid?
- 19 Dec 2023 7:57 AM
But why is Hungary blocking Ukraine's EU membership bid?
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But why is Hungary blocking Ukraine's EU membership bid?
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Peter Magyar, the leader of the victorious Tisza Party, on Monday told an international press conference that Hungary would neither participate in the 90 billion euro European Union loan to Ukraine nor support Ukraine's fast-tracked EU accession.
A consortium of European outlets—including VSquare, FRONTSTORY, Delfi Estonia, The Insider, and the Investigative Center of Ján Kuciak (ICJK)—has published another batch of leaked phone calls between Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
A new case of collusion graver than ever before has come to light with the eruption of the Tisza spy agent scandal, "which clearly proves that preparations are under way" for a pro-Ukraine "agent government", the parliamentary state secretary of the Prime Minister's Office said on Tuesday.
Hungary is the only country in Europe that does not send money to Ukraine, and does not have an austerity package, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Parliament on Thursday, at the Forum of Hungarian Lawmakers of the Carpathian Basin.
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