{"id":73773,"date":"2026-06-19T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/73773\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:21:10","slug":"accession-to-the-european-union-magyar-removed-the-passage-on-ukraines-accelerated-accession-from-the-eu-statement-ukrainian-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/73773\/","title":{"rendered":"Accession to the European Union \u2013 Magyar Removed the Passage on Ukraine\u2019s Accelerated Accession from the EU Statement | Ukrainian News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            The Hungarian Prime Minister stated that, thanks to Hungary&#8217;s proposals, the summit&#8217;s final statement had &#8220;been significantly improved&#8221;    <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781842870_7_20260427142019-5584.jpg&#038;w=100&#038;h=100&#038;fit=cover&#038;a=right.webp\"  alt=\"Serhiy Malamura\" title=\"Serhiy Malamura\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liga.net\/en\/author\/sergei-malamura\" class=\"user__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serhiy Malamura<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News editor at LIGA.net<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260602164912-2418.jpg\"  alt=\"Hungary succeeded in having the clause on Ukraine's accelerated accession removed from the EU summit declaration\" title=\"Hungary succeeded in having the clause on Ukraine's accelerated accession removed from the EU summit declaration\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>        Peter Magyar (Photo: EPA \/ Filip Singer)    <\/p>\n<p>Hungary succeeded in having the wording regarding Ukraine\u2019s accelerated accession removed from the final declaration of the European Union summit. Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/file.liga.net\/ua\/persons\/madyar-peter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">P\u00e9ter Magyar<\/a> initiated this proposal and insisted that it be included. He <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/magyarpeterMP\/status\/2067721257173360963\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported this<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p> Why This Matters. The change in Hungary\u2019s government has given new hope to those who support Ukraine\u2019s accelerated accession to the European Union. But the new government, led by Magyar, is also imposing a number of conditions on Kyiv. Read about the price that Hungary\u2019s current prime minister might demand from Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liga.net\/en\/politics\/articles\/after-orban-no-relief-what-price-will-magyar-demand-from-ukraine-for-weapons-and-transcarpathia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> in this article<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>According to Madyar, during several weeks of work on the wording based on the Hungarian proposal, the statement was &#8220;significantly improved&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At my initiative, a provision regarding the acceleration of accession was removed from the text at the last minute. It wasn&#8217;t easy,&#8221; Madyar noted.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that, for the first time in a year and a half, the final statement was adopted by consensus among all EU member states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That may well be the case if someone comes not just to overturn tables and spread fear, but also to try to find a compromise,&#8221; added Madyar.<\/p>\n<p>This was his first time attending an EU summit as Hungary\u2019s prime minister. A Hungarian diplomat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/18\/peter-magyars-eu-summit-debut-signals-hungarian-reset-after-change-of-guard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Euronews on condition of anonymity that at the summit, Magyar had a brief conversation with Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/file.liga.net\/en\/persons\/vladimir-zelenskii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and expressed doubts about the advisability of quickly opening the remaining negotiation clusters for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian side claims that it is &#8220;not alone&#8221; in holding this position. Some other European Union countries have expressed similar reservations:.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, according to media reports, Zelenskyy is optimistic and believes that Hungary will help open the remaining chapters for negotiations on Ukraine\u2019s accession to the EU &#8220;sooner than you think&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The summit\u2019s final statement notes that the European Union and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.liga.net\/en\/war\/news\/eu-sanctions-against-russia-have-been-extended-for-the-first-time-by-12-months-instead-of-six-months\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">will continue to increase pressure on Russia<\/a> to weaken its war economy, &#8220;so that the Russian Federation will end its brutal war of aggression and begin serious peace negotiations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has also extended its economic sanctions against Russia for the first time\u2014not for six months, as it had done previously, but for a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hungarian Prime Minister stated that, thanks to Hungary&#8217;s proposals, the summit&#8217;s final statement had &#8220;been significantly improved&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,15772,2875,40,58,2877],"class_list":["post-73773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-eu-accession","tag-eu-summit","tag-european-union","tag-hungary","tag-peter-magyar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}