Hungary’s Orbán claims 'EU has decided to go to war' and calls for petition against Brussels

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán launched a caller scathing onslaught against the bulk of EU leaders implicit the plans to antagonistic Russian incursions into subordinate states’ airspaces, arsenic discussed astatine the EU acme successful Copenhagen connected Wednesday.

On his accomplishment astatine the European Political Community gathering successful Copenhagen connected Thursday, Orbán announced that “the EU has decided to spell to war” and that astatine Wednesday’s informal EU summit, they presented their warfare strategy connected however to decision the Russians, which helium labelled arsenic “horrifying”.

He referred to the EU leaders’ determination to springiness "broad support" to proposals to ramp up the improvement of drone and anti-drone exertion and to usage immobilised Russian assets to indebtedness wealth to Ukraine.

"Leaders broadly supported archetypal precedence flagship projects that volition fortify Europe's security, including the European drone partition and the Eastern Flank Watch," European Council President Antonio Costa told reporters astatine the extremity of the informal gathering successful the Danish capital.

According to Orbán, this absorption is detrimental to Hungary and the full European Union. The premier curate announced that the governing enactment volition motorboat a petition against what helium called "the EU's warfare plans."

"The unit is great. So I volition suggest to the Fidesz presidency that we commencement a signature run successful Hungary against the EU's warfare plans. Because we request each our spot to enactment retired of this war," Orbán said.

Orban says 'the Costa program is dead'

The Hungarian premier curate besides discussed however helium rejected the thought floated astatine the acme to amend the EU's enlargement rules to facilitate Ukraine's accession talks.

The alleged Costa program suggested lifting the unanimity required for the opening of each negotiating chapter.

Changing the rules besides requires unanimity, and Hungary volition veto Ukraine’s EU accession, according to Orbán.

"I told them, I bash not agree, truthful this program is dead," Orbán said.

The Hungarian premier besides repeated his presumption that, alternatively of a afloat EU membership, Ukraine should get a strategical concern with the EU, which helium called “a amended idea”. The afloat rank would mean, successful his view, that "the warfare would participate the European Union."

Orbán has been opposing Ukraine's rank and the fiscal enactment for Ukraine for years, blocking galore supporting decisions successful Brussels, portion relenting to EU unit and agreeing to the aggregate EU sanctions packages against Russia.

The Hungarian authorities conducted an anti-Ukraine run earlier this year, featuring billboards that portrayed Volodymyr Zelenskyy alongside absorption person Péter Magyar.

The authorities besides launched a canvass connected Ukraine's EU bid, successful which, according to the government, 95% of respondents were against Ukraine joining the 27-member bloc.

Budapest politician calls Orbán's anti-Ukraine run successful Hungary 'shameful'

Meanwhile, Budapest's greenish enactment politician and apical Orban opponent, Gergely Karácsony, told Euronews connected Wednesday that Ukraine's EU accession is simply a wide nationalist involvement of Hungary.

Karácsony said authorities propaganda has turned against Ukraine and its EU ambitions due to the fact that “they ran retired of imaginary enemies”.

It would beryllium successful Hungary's nationalist involvement to enactment Ukraine's accession to the EU, adjacent if reconstruction would instrumentality immense amounts of wealth from the EU budget, the politician told Euronews.

"The Transcarpathian Hungarians are unanimous successful their request that the Hungarian authorities should enactment Ukraine's EU membership," Karácsony said.

"This is simply a immense accidental for the European economy, due to the fact that the EU could grow with a subordinate authorities that represents a ample marketplace and large resources."

"But unfortunately, we are not determination yet. Obviously, we person to get to the extremity of the war, to the ceasefire," helium pointed out.

"And rank of the European Union is not tomorrow, but I judge that Hungary's enactment for Ukraine's accession is successful our overriding nationalist interest. I don't spot immoderate statement against that," Karácsony concluded.