‘Zelenskyy should have been removed from office,’ Communications Director for the governing Fidesz–KDNP coalition in Hungary Tamás Menczer wrote in a Facebook post on Friday, 21 March. ‘Or at least the TV should have been turned off when he signed in remotely at the Brussels summit yesterday. Donald Trump has shown how to deal with this,’ he continued.
Here, the director is referring to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy being asked to leave prematurely by US President Donald Trump at their meeting in the White House in Washington, DC on 28 February.
Representatives of all EU Member States convened for a summit in Brussels, Belgium yesterday, where joint defence efforts and military aid to Ukraine have been the major agenda points. The summit continues today.
‘If only the European Council had pro-peace, decisive and strong leaders like Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán, they would have simply turned off the TV yesterday when Zelensky was rude, ungrateful, and demanding. He demands the continuation of the war and Ukraine’s membership in the EU. But the war has already cost every Hungarian family 2.5 million HUF! And Ukraine’s EU membership would cost millions more for each and every family! That’s why we need an opinion vote.
We are helping Ukraine, as we have a heart, and we are carrying out the biggest humanitarian effort in the history of Hungary. But Hungary comes first!…Viktor Orbán started the peace mission, Donald Trump will finish it. Go, Trump!’ Menczer concluded his Facebook post.
According to POLITICO, the EU Member States of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have sent a joint letter, asking EU leadership in Brussels to speed up Ukraine’s accession process. The Hungarian government headed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, however, is in stark opposition to these efforts. In his speech on the Hungarian national holiday 15 March, PM Orbán specifically called for ‘an EU without Ukraine’.
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