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Hungarian PM Orbán: “I Couldn’t Face My Conscience If I Allowed Ukraine to Join the EU”

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Hungarian PM Orbán: “I Couldn’t Face My Conscience If I Allowed Ukraine to Join the EU”
Slovakian PM Robert Fico (R) and Hungarian PM Viktor Orban (L) speak to the media during the joint press conference in the Mirror Hall of the Slovak Governmental Office. (Source: Getty Images)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has openly declared his determination to prevent Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, justifying his stance as a defense of Hungarian interests.

In a statement posted on Facebook on June 3, Orbán criticized Brussels’ bureaucracy, calling Ukraine’s membership “a good business deal amid a losing war.”

“Ukraine will drain every euro, forint, and zloty that we have spent strengthening European families, farmers, and industry,” he wrote.

Orbán asserted that in ten years, he would not be able to answer to his conscience, grandchildren, or country if he does not do everything now to “protect Hungary and the European Union from Brussels’ fever dream of Ukrainian accession.”

“We are responsible for Hungarian families, Hungarian entrepreneurs, and Hungarian farmers. In ten years, I could not face my conscience—or my grandchildren, or the country—if I didn’t do everything now to protect Hungary and the European Union from Brussels’ fever dream of Ukrainian accession,” he wrote.

Orbán used his post to promote the government’s ongoing survey on Ukraine’s EU membership.

Earlier in April, Orbán has publicly voted against Ukraine’s accession to the European Union as part of a nationwide consultation launched by his government.

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