Ukraine’s accession will bankrupt the EU

Ukraine’s accession to the EU will not be ‘a good deal,’ said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday, according to which Ukraine will not bring any added value to the European Union, but will bankrupt it, reports the MTI Agency.

Reacting to comments made earlier to a press conference by the president of the European People’s Party (EPP), the German Manfred Weber, the Hungarian prime minister said that his country was received in the EU as his accession was advantageous to the other Member States. « It was a good deal, including for Germany, Herr Weber, » Orban wrote on Facebook. Instead, Ukraine’s accession will not be ‘a good deal,’ he added.

‘To send European money to Ukraine instead of using them to strengthen the European economy in difficulty would be a huge mistake. It is the time for European leaders to represent the European people, Herr Weber! ‘, The Hungarian prime minister wrote in his post.

He previously said that if Ukraine adheres to the EU there will be no European funds available for Hungary and in addition the Hungarian agricultural sector will be seriously affected. Also, the Hungarian prime minister has launched a national consultation to test the opinion of his countrymen on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.

The stakes of this ongoing consultation is ‘huge’, said the Secretary of Parliamentary State of Prime Minister Orban, Balazs Hidveghi, according to which Brussels aims to rush the process of accession of Ukraine without being interested in the opinion of European citizens on this subject.

Such an accession will have catastrophic consequences for Hungary ‘, said Balazs Hidveghi in a video message distributed on Facebook. According to him, the EU’s support of Ukraine in the War with Russia has cost each Hungarian family so far 2.5 million forint (about 6,200 euros), and an accession of Ukraine to the Community Bloc will cost each other Hungarian family another 4 million forints per year. Also, Hungarian farmers will lose European funds of about 7 billion euros, has also estimated the same Hungarian official.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski asked the European Union on Monday to agree on a ‘political agreement’ between its Member States so that Ukraine could advance in the process of accession to the Community Bloc, an agreement that does not allow any veto to those reluctant to this accession.

‘Ukraine has passed the first phase of accession negotiations, and now, soon, we are ready to initiate the first round of negotiations’ on the accession chapters, Zelenski told Prague, at a press conference after a meeting with Czech Petr Fiala.

« Only the political agreement of Europe is missing, an agreement that all Europe has to adopt and not an individual who intends to manipulate all of Europe, » said the Ukrainian president. He did not specify who refers to, but it seems a clear allusion to Hungary and Slovakia, whose premiers, Viktor Orban and Robert Fico, have repeatedly expressed against Ukraine’s accession