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🔹EU officials are working towards forcing Hungarian 🇭🇺PM Viktor Orban to vote for the start of Ukraine's EU accession after Hungary abstained from a recent vote for aid to Ukraine. Last week, Hungary blocked 50 billion euros in EU aid for Ukraine 🇺🇦, just hours after an agreement was reached on starting membership talks. Hungary believes EU funding to Ukraine must not be granted from the EU's budget and that the 26 other members should do a joint loan outside the budget.
🔹Orban said it was unprecedented for the EU to start integration talks with a country at war, adding questions if parts of Ukraine should also be integrated that is now part of the Russian Federation. The EU 🇪🇺 has not provided an “objective analysis” of the possible impacts of Ukraine’s accession.
🔹A day before the vote, the EU commission approved the release of 10 billion euros to Hungary that was frozen by the EU until Hungary enacted judicial reforms. Hungary rejects in the strongest possible terms the political agreement reached on the EU’s new pact on migration and asylum.
🔹In September, Ukraine filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Hungary 🇭🇺, Poland 🇵🇱and Slovakia 🇸🇰 who are keeping their borders closed to importing Ukrainian grain. In August, Hungary's FM P. Szijjarto revealed that EU member states are expecting to fund the war in Ukraine for at least another 4 years at a cost of €5 billion per year.
🔹Meanwhile, Hungary would do everything it could during its presidency of the Council of the European Union next year to revamp the customs union between the EU and Türkiye 🇹🇷 as well as support Turkey on the issue of visa liberalisation. Both countries are members of the Organisation of Turkic States.
🔹Orban said it was unprecedented for the EU to start integration talks with a country at war, adding questions if parts of Ukraine should also be integrated that is now part of the Russian Federation. The EU 🇪🇺 has not provided an “objective analysis” of the possible impacts of Ukraine’s accession.
🔹A day before the vote, the EU commission approved the release of 10 billion euros to Hungary that was frozen by the EU until Hungary enacted judicial reforms. Hungary rejects in the strongest possible terms the political agreement reached on the EU’s new pact on migration and asylum.
🔹In September, Ukraine filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Hungary 🇭🇺, Poland 🇵🇱and Slovakia 🇸🇰 who are keeping their borders closed to importing Ukrainian grain. In August, Hungary's FM P. Szijjarto revealed that EU member states are expecting to fund the war in Ukraine for at least another 4 years at a cost of €5 billion per year.
🔹Meanwhile, Hungary would do everything it could during its presidency of the Council of the European Union next year to revamp the customs union between the EU and Türkiye 🇹🇷 as well as support Turkey on the issue of visa liberalisation. Both countries are members of the Organisation of Turkic States.