{"id":90102,"date":"2025-05-10T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90102\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:02:12","slug":"eu-diplomacy-chief-on-hungarys-ukraine-veto-one-opposing-nation-cannot-hold-all-others-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90102\/","title":{"rendered":"EU diplomacy chief on Hungary&#8217;s Ukraine veto: one opposing nation cannot hold all others hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaja Kallas. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has criticised Hungary for making bilateral issues an obstacle to Ukraine&#8217;s integration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Kallas in an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-polytics\/3991404-kaja-kallas-eus-high-representative-for-foreign-affairs-and-security-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrinform<\/a> news agency, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Kallas believes it is a positive step that Ukraine is meeting with Hungary to resolve bilateral issues.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> &#8220;On our side, we are also saying that these bilateral issues \u2013 not only in Ukraine but in other countries-candidates cannot be an obstacle if the country has done their homework, which means all the reforms that the European Union requires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Kallas stressed that the EU, for its part, is also working on decision-making mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because if the majority \u2013 26 states \u2013 are in favour and one is against then this one country cannot hold hostage everybody else,&#8221; she emphasised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Earlier, the Ukrainian government criticised the EU&#8217;s treatment of Ukraine&#8217;s progress as unfair. Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/05\/5\/7510727\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained<\/a> that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to change the Hungarian government.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On 9 May, Kallas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/05\/9\/7511461\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that the EU understands how to proceed if Hungary&#8217;s veto on Ukraine&#8217;s accession cannot be overcome.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaja Kallas. Photo: Getty Images Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has criticised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,2190,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-90102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-hungary","11":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114483674766718550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}