Negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU begin: Orban did not vote for the European Council's decision and has already given the reason
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban opposed the EU's decision to start accession talks with Ukraine, saying the country was not ready and calling the decision erroneous and irrational. He abstained from voting.
Today, after the European Council decided to start negotiations with Ukraine on EU membership, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recorded a video message in which he said that he did not vote for this decision because he believes that Ukraine is not ready for it, UNN reports.
Hungary's position is clear - Ukraine is not ready to start negotiations on EU membership. It is a completely ridiculous, irrational and wrong decision to start negotiations with Ukraine under such circumstances, and Hungary does not change its position. On the contrary, 26 other countries insisted on making this decision. Hungary decided that the 26 could go their own way. Hungary did not want to share in this bad decision, so today we stayed away
The Guardian also reported today that Viktor Orban left the room while the leaders decided to start accession talks with Ukraine.
As a reminder
The European Council decided to start accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova.