Hungary promises to block start of Ukraine’s negotiations on joining EU
EUROPEAN PRAVDA, UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — TUESDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2023
Balázs Orbán, Political Director of the Prime Minister of Hungary, said that Budapest will block the start of negotiations with Ukraine on joining the EU until Hungarian requirements regarding the language of education are met.
Source: Orbán in an interview with NOS, as reported by European Pravda.
Quote: “Hungary has always been a supporter of Ukraine’s rapprochement with the European Union,” he said, adding, however, that a tougher language law has changed everything.
“We will block it until the problem is solved,” said Orbán, answering whether Hungary will block the start of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
“The new laws have made the life of Hungarians in Ukraine unbearable,” Orbán said. He refers to the recently introduced law in Ukraine, which obliges minorities, not only Hungarian, to receive at least 70% of education in the Ukrainian language. Thus, Hungary worries that children who grow up in Hungarian-speaking families in Ukraine will have difficulties while studying.
“We cannot come to terms with this,” Balázs Orbán said.
“Hungary’s position is absolutely clear: as long as this law exists, there can be no discussions with Ukrainians about their integration into the European Union,” he emphasised.
Background:
Earlier, Radio Svoboda reported that the European Commission considered that four of the seven criteria that accompanied the obtaining of candidate status for European Union membership by Ukraine have been fully met. At the same time, the other three criteria are accompanied by recommendations from the European Commission regarding further implementation.
Legislative reforms regarding national minorities are among the incompletely fulfilled criteria.
Bloomberg said that the European Commission will most likely recommend the EU member states to start official negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union after fulfilling all seven criteria.
Really just bad news for Ukraine one after another
The EU needs to ensure Hungary will soon be an Ex EU member state.
Well fuck Hungary
They should really be kicked out of the EU,, for not only supporting Putin bu also giving physical support
Man on the inside
It’s remarkable how a few corrupt old men can be the death of millions.
Hungary needs to be blockaded
So teach them the Ukrainian language at school and use Ukrainian as the language of instruction, they can use Hungarian at home, cultural events, etc. and they’ll be bilingual!
Lets trade Hungary for Ukraine!
EU should learn from Polish – Lithuanian commonwealth’s history and stop using veto in it’s system. This shit is extremely efficient way to paralyse democratic institutions, and allow external powers to damage efficiency of lawmaking in any democratic state or organisation at extremely low cost of bribing few politicans.
What the hell kind of game are these clowns playing? Obviously Orby and Putler made a secret pact to partition Ukraine. Didn’t work.
Get rid of that veto bullshit. At least reduce it to 2/3 majority vote.
I hope there’s not a dime going in the direction of Hungary, it’s a shame we can’t just kick them out
How old is orban? How much longer until he fucking dies?
I feel like when putin drops dead, many of these traitors will suddenly need to think for themselves for the first time in a long time, but it’d be nice if orby became worm food soon.
I’ve got a great idea:
Kick out Hungary and give their spot to Ukraine.
Ooooooh I’m surprise!!!’
While getting EU benefits.
Well, go fuck yourselves then
I don’t know why talks of Ukraine joining the EU are coming up right now. Even with Hungary trying to score brownie points with Russia, Ukraine is in now way close to meeting the requirements for joining the EU and won’t be for awhile. Not to mention there are countries that applied decades ago that are still waiting for approval. I feel like this is giving false hope.
Let’s directly swap Ukraine and Hungary’s membership then.
Well isn’t there several pipelines from Russia that came to Hungary ? Well maybe you can work something with that.
UN, NATO, EU competing for a title of greater clown… When there are loopholes in your rules you supposed to fix it, not ignore them.
Before you slam Hungary, which I could understand if true… mind checking sources in general in particular on hot topics, the „news“ cycle is very fast and often things are blown out into the open informational space which are just not true but they are accepted as „facts“ unchecked.
Especially when these headlines feed an already existent bias in people‘s mind.
russian shills
Ukraine joining the EU now is just asking for problems and escalating the war, how can you be in favor of this?
It’s a shame, such a beautiful country
seems like an easy fix. allow education in other languages. done?
How generous, time to promise Hungary some in return. Overdue actually.
Sounds like Hungary needs more Freedom^TM
Kick those fuckers out of EU
I’ve been to Budapest. That city is amazing and actually incredibly liberal. The government however is sadly conservative and not a reflection on the people
Remove Orban.
Orban has a price just like all the low life self centered pricks in power and the EU knows this,he’s not important now and Ukraine is .Orban just standing in line waiting for he’s due ,he is just too dum to see it.
Hungary, a country smaller than the state of Pennsylvania. Good luck with all that influence.
Regardless of whether right or fair, accommodating Hungary’s demand seems like a small price for EU admission.
However, there would be other hurdles, and Orban very well could throw up additional objections later.
Please kick Hungary out of the EU and NATO!
I don’t understand how these organizations don’t have rules that allow for one member country to hold up assention of new members. It should only take a majority of members to ratify a new member joining.
In addition, there should be a clause to suspend, expel or cancel a membership of EU and NATO. The idea that one country like Turkey or Hungary can stop everything is “ABSURD”!!!
Even the United Nations has become “OBSOLETE” because it can’t accomplish anything because of just a few countries ability to VETO things.
I have a SIMPLE Solution for Hungary:
1) Leave EU
2) Leave NATO
3) Join Russian Federation and be 100% under control of Putin / Russia including its repressive human rights laws and ONLY use the Ruble (Russian Currency).
I hope Orban will soon quit the presidency. On another matter EU should be reformed to avoid wanna be dictator like him from destroying it from within.
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Hungary promises to block start of Ukraine’s negotiations on joining EU
EUROPEAN PRAVDA, UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — TUESDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2023
Balázs Orbán, Political Director of the Prime Minister of Hungary, said that Budapest will block the start of negotiations with Ukraine on joining the EU until Hungarian requirements regarding the language of education are met.
Source: Orbán in an interview with NOS, as reported by European Pravda.
Quote: “Hungary has always been a supporter of Ukraine’s rapprochement with the European Union,” he said, adding, however, that a tougher language law has changed everything.
“We will block it until the problem is solved,” said Orbán, answering whether Hungary will block the start of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
“The new laws have made the life of Hungarians in Ukraine unbearable,” Orbán said. He refers to the recently introduced law in Ukraine, which obliges minorities, not only Hungarian, to receive at least 70% of education in the Ukrainian language. Thus, Hungary worries that children who grow up in Hungarian-speaking families in Ukraine will have difficulties while studying.
“We cannot come to terms with this,” Balázs Orbán said.
“Hungary’s position is absolutely clear: as long as this law exists, there can be no discussions with Ukrainians about their integration into the European Union,” he emphasised.
Background:
Earlier, Radio Svoboda reported that the European Commission considered that four of the seven criteria that accompanied the obtaining of candidate status for European Union membership by Ukraine have been fully met. At the same time, the other three criteria are accompanied by recommendations from the European Commission regarding further implementation.
Legislative reforms regarding national minorities are among the incompletely fulfilled criteria.
Bloomberg said that the European Commission will most likely recommend the EU member states to start official negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union after fulfilling all seven criteria.
Really just bad news for Ukraine one after another
The EU needs to ensure Hungary will soon be an Ex EU member state.
Well fuck Hungary
They should really be kicked out of the EU,, for not only supporting Putin bu also giving physical support
Man on the inside
It’s remarkable how a few corrupt old men can be the death of millions.
Hungary needs to be blockaded
So teach them the Ukrainian language at school and use Ukrainian as the language of instruction, they can use Hungarian at home, cultural events, etc. and they’ll be bilingual!
Lets trade Hungary for Ukraine!
EU should learn from Polish – Lithuanian commonwealth’s history and stop using veto in it’s system. This shit is extremely efficient way to paralyse democratic institutions, and allow external powers to damage efficiency of lawmaking in any democratic state or organisation at extremely low cost of bribing few politicans.
What the hell kind of game are these clowns playing? Obviously Orby and Putler made a secret pact to partition Ukraine. Didn’t work.
Get rid of that veto bullshit. At least reduce it to 2/3 majority vote.
I hope there’s not a dime going in the direction of Hungary, it’s a shame we can’t just kick them out
How old is orban? How much longer until he fucking dies?
I feel like when putin drops dead, many of these traitors will suddenly need to think for themselves for the first time in a long time, but it’d be nice if orby became worm food soon.
I’ve got a great idea:
Kick out Hungary and give their spot to Ukraine.
Ooooooh I’m surprise!!!’
While getting EU benefits.
Well, go fuck yourselves then
I don’t know why talks of Ukraine joining the EU are coming up right now. Even with Hungary trying to score brownie points with Russia, Ukraine is in now way close to meeting the requirements for joining the EU and won’t be for awhile. Not to mention there are countries that applied decades ago that are still waiting for approval. I feel like this is giving false hope.
Let’s directly swap Ukraine and Hungary’s membership then.
Well isn’t there several pipelines from Russia that came to Hungary ? Well maybe you can work something with that.
UN, NATO, EU competing for a title of greater clown… When there are loopholes in your rules you supposed to fix it, not ignore them.
Before you slam Hungary, which I could understand if true… mind checking sources in general in particular on hot topics, the „news“ cycle is very fast and often things are blown out into the open informational space which are just not true but they are accepted as „facts“ unchecked.
Especially when these headlines feed an already existent bias in people‘s mind.
russian shills
Ukraine joining the EU now is just asking for problems and escalating the war, how can you be in favor of this?
It’s a shame, such a beautiful country
seems like an easy fix. allow education in other languages. done?
How generous, time to promise Hungary some in return. Overdue actually.
Sounds like Hungary needs more Freedom^TM
Kick those fuckers out of EU
I’ve been to Budapest. That city is amazing and actually incredibly liberal. The government however is sadly conservative and not a reflection on the people
Remove Orban.
Orban has a price just like all the low life self centered pricks in power and the EU knows this,he’s not important now and Ukraine is .Orban just standing in line waiting for he’s due ,he is just too dum to see it.
Hungary, a country smaller than the state of Pennsylvania. Good luck with all that influence.
Regardless of whether right or fair, accommodating Hungary’s demand seems like a small price for EU admission.
However, there would be other hurdles, and Orban very well could throw up additional objections later.
Please kick Hungary out of the EU and NATO!
I don’t understand how these organizations don’t have rules that allow for one member country to hold up assention of new members. It should only take a majority of members to ratify a new member joining.
In addition, there should be a clause to suspend, expel or cancel a membership of EU and NATO. The idea that one country like Turkey or Hungary can stop everything is “ABSURD”!!!
Even the United Nations has become “OBSOLETE” because it can’t accomplish anything because of just a few countries ability to VETO things.
I have a SIMPLE Solution for Hungary:
1) Leave EU
2) Leave NATO
3) Join Russian Federation and be 100% under control of Putin / Russia including its repressive human rights laws and ONLY use the Ruble (Russian Currency).
I hope Orban will soon quit the presidency. On another matter EU should be reformed to avoid wanna be dictator like him from destroying it from within.