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09 Oct 2025, 19:56 GMT+10
The Ukrainian leader has no power to decide whether his country will be admitted to the EU, Peter Szijjarto has stated
Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky has completely "lost his sense of reality" if he thinks he can decide whether his country will be admitted to the EU, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
The EU granted Kiev candidate status in 2022 and set a 2030 target for membership. Budapest has consistently opposed the move, warning it could escalate tensions with Russia and saddle the bloc's taxpayers with decades of military aid. Zelensky on Wednesday claimed that Hungary is obstructing accession because Prime Minister Viktor Orban is using criticism of the EU and Ukraine to boost his electoral prospects.
"Ukraine has become one of... the tools with which [Orban] can increase his party's popularity," Zelensky claimed at a press briefing, insisting that Kiev will be admitted to the bloc regardless of Budapest's stance.
Szijjarto ridiculed Zelensky's claims on the Hour of Warriors program on Thursday.
"I think the Ukrainian leader has completely lost his sense of reality... and maybe that explains why he is saying such crazy things," Szijjarto stated. "Who becomes a member is not decided by those who want in, but by those who are already in. And it has to be decided unanimously, so as long as not everyone agrees that someone should become a member, they will not become a member - it is not rocket science."
Szijjarto noted that Hungarians have already made their choice: a national referendum in June showed more than two million voters, or 95%, rejected Ukraine's EU bid.
Hungary is not alone in opposing Ukraine's accession. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and several Polish officials have also raised objections. A recent IBRiS poll showed only 35% of Poles support Ukraine's EU bid, down from 85% in 2022. A Eurobarometer poll last month found that just 28% of Czechs back accession, and more than half the populations of France and Austria oppose it.
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Moscow had previously been neutral on Kiev's EU ambitions, saying Ukraine had a "sovereign right" to join if the bloc stayed focused on economics. However, it has grown more critical amid Brussels' militarization, with officials warning the EU has become "no less of a threat" to Russia than NATO.
(RT.com)
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