Responding to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal that the EU should begin “accession negotiations” with Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto voiced dissent on Nov. 8. “By admitting Ukraine, the EU would also get war, which obviously no one wants to happen,” Szijjarto said, according to Hungarian media. “Enlargement should serve to spread peace, not to bring war into the EU.”
“Right, there is a war in Ukraine, so we can see that neither media freedom nor freedom of speech is enforced, we can see that elections are not held either,” Szijjarto pointed out.
