Anastasia Gorbacheva18:19, 07.12.23
Pedro Marquez noted that Orban cannot blackmail other countries.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban cannot “blackmail” other European Union member states by threatening to block Ukraine’s membership negotiations.
“The moment has come for the EU when something needs to change. This is an alarming signal for leaders that we cannot continue to allow ourselves to be blackmailed by some authoritarian leader,” Pedro Márquez, deputy chairman of the group of socialists and democrats in the European Parliament, was quoted as saying by The Guardian.
He said that the EU cannot put itself in a situation where Ukraine will see that Europe is unable to help.
“From my point of view, it is also unacceptable for anyone to have the impression that at the end of next week Orban got his way and received his 30 billion euros in exchange for allowing the EU to continue to provide assistance to Ukraine. We simply cannot exchange money for valuables. This is unacceptable,” Marquez said.
Márquez believes the EU also needs to abandon the rule that enlargement decisions must be made unanimously.
“When you join the EU, it means that you are a democratic country. I think we did not imagine that democracy could be corrupted from the inside,” the politician concluded.
Hungary blackmails the EU – latest news
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is categorically against negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU. The politician is trying his best to get more money from Brussels. Budpest’s blackmail has called into question further EU membership.
Orban wrote to European Council President Charles Michel demanding a review of EU policy towards Ukraine and threatening to block the payment of 50 billion euros in aid to Kiev.
French President Emmanuel Macron invited the Hungarian prime minister to Paris to try to find a compromise regarding negotiations with Ukraine on joining the European Union
(C)UNIAN 2023
Finally someone speaking out about the scum sucking Hungarian.
I hope the days of unanimous consent in the EU and NATO are OVER!
Not only the EU, but NATO needs a good look at why they have a pro russian country in its ranks.
I have less hope about NATO doing anything constructive.
That should’ve happened a long time ago. But, I will not hold my breath, hoping this will bring any results in the near future.
“Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union allows for the possibility of suspending European Union (EU) membership rights (such as voting rights in the Council of the European Union) if a country seriously and persistently breaches the principles on which the EU is founded as defined in Article 2 of the Treaty on”.
Please don’t tell me it needs a unanimous vote to suspend someone