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“At Thursday’s European Parliament session, the European Commission made it clear that it intended to use legal means to silence voices opposing Ukraine’s EU accession,” said Csaba Dömötör, Fidesz MEP, in Strasbourg.
Following the European Parliament’s plenary debate on EU enlargement, Csaba Dömötör told journalists that the EC’s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos stated during the debate that they were working to ensure that, contrary to previous practice, there would be no unanimity on the decision on enlargement.
This means that they want to sweep aside Hungary’s opinions and will,”
he warned.
“The strongest response to this is for as many people as possible to take part in the vote on Ukraine’s membership,” he said.
The Fidesz MEP said that the European Parliament and the European Commission are “ramming through” the campaign for Ukrainian enlargement and treating it as a “fait accompli.” They want to complete the membership process during this term, by 2029, and to this end they intend to open all negotiation chapters this year. The enlargement commissioner previously said that a thousand people are working on this issue at the European Commission, and she also confirmed that certain European Union markets would be opened to Ukraine even before it achieves full membership, he recalled.
“Meanwhile, they do not want to open a debate on how much all this would cost, to what extent cohesion funds would be reduced in certain Member States, and how agricultural subsidies would be cut,” said Dömötör, adding that according to the calculations of the relevant EU parliamentary committee, cohesion funding would be reduced by 24 percent in the current Member States, and agricultural subsidies by at least 15 percent.
“Absurdly, they say that Ukraine’s membership is a guarantee of Europe’s security, even though we are talking about a country at war,” emphasized the Fidesz politician. They do not want to say a word about the enforcement of minority rights, even though the European Parliament is demanding the enforcement of fundamental rights from morning to night, he added.
What they are pushing for would not only affect everyday security, it would also bring the already bleeding European economy to its knees,”
Dömötör pointed out.
According to him, the leader of the opposition party Tisza admitted in a statement to a Polish television that his party wants a different policy on Ukraine than the Hungarian Government and that they will do their part in “what needs to be done.” This, he said, means that “at home, they deny what they are an integral part of here. In the party Péter Magyar’s Tisza belongs to in Brussels, the European People’s Party (EPP), even membership is conditional on unconditional support for Ukraine. After all this, it is not surprising that the leader of the Tisza Party’s EP delegation said that the Hungarian opinion poll is useless,” he emphasized.
“Whatever the case, the loudest response to these plans is for as many people as possible to take part in the opinion poll,” Dömötör added in his statement.
Via MTI; Featured photo: Pixabay