As the push for the accession of Ukraine into the EU is intensifying in Brussels, Hungary remains in stern opposition to the proposal. Director General for the Budapest-based conservative think tank Center for Fundamental Rights Miklós Szánthó has published a Facebook post in which he outlines yet another issue with a potential Ukrainian EU membership.
‘Ukraine does not meet the criteria for membership even by the EU’s own assessments—then why are they pushing for its accession?’ Director Szánthó asks at the beginning of his post.
‘Alex Soros has visited Marta Kos, the European Commission’s Enlargement Commissioner—why that is should remain a shady mystery for now—but the whiteboard in his post shows that Ukraine, according to Brussels itself, has NOT YET MET A SINGLE ACCESSION CONDITION!
In the Commission’s “enlargement scoreboard”, Ukraine’s column clearly shows that all negotiating chapters are marked with a red dot, meaning that the country does not currently meet the requirements for EU membership:
1) Legal criteria (democracy, rule of law, human rights, stability of institutions guaranteeing respect for and protection of the rights of minorities);
2) Economic criteria (existence of a functioning market economy and the capacity to manage competitive pressure and market forces); but also
3) Requirements relating to administrative and institutional capacity (the acquis communautaire and its effective implementation and the ability to assume the obligations of EU membership),’ Szánthó spells out in his post.
Ukraine officially applied for EU membership a few days after being invaded by Russia in February 2022. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine called for an ‘accelerated process’ for his country’s accession at the time. The Brussels leadership has heeded his call, despite other countries having been official EU candidate states for many years before Ukraine—Albania, for instance, officially applied in 2009 and was granted candidate status in 2014.
The latest development in Ukraine’s potential EU membership comes from March 2025, when Ukraine announced that it had finished the screening of the second cluster of negotiation chapters.
On the issue, Director Szánthó continues to write:
‘Nobody blames Kyiv for this, the country has been attacked by the Russians, it is at war. Its territory and population cannot be determined, and the state apparatus is functioning only because of foreign (EU and formerly US) aid. But despite all this, Brussels, von der Leyen, Soros Jr and their Hungarian comrades want to see Ukraine in the EU before 2030. It is clear from all this that there is no real legal or merit basis for this, only a political and ideological purpose.
‘Brussels, von der Leyen, Soros Jr and their Hungarian comrades want to see Ukraine in the EU before 2030’
The sad and absurd part of all this is that the entry of such a country, which is not fit for EU membership, would not only eat up a good part of the EU development funds—which Hungary is currently entitled to—but would also destroy the structure and institutions of the EU as we know it today. And the disintegration of the EU is really in the interest of one man: [Russian President] Vladimir Putin.’
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