The EU has been waging an ideological war against Hungary in recent years, the country’s prime minister Viktor Orban has said.
“The EU has been waging an ideological war against Hungary in recent years and has constantly tried to blackmail us,” he said in an interview with French magazine Le Point.
Orban said the EU was moving closer and closer to imperialism and looking less and less like a community of sovereign states.
“Whatever reasonable arguments you put forward, the EU is trying to force you to participate in something you don’t want,” the politician added.
Earlier, an adviser to Hungarian Prime Minister Balazs Orban said that the Hungarian side put forward conditions to the EU for the approval of the aid package to Ukraine.
Before that, the Financial Times, citing an EU document, wrote that the EU could sabotage the Hungarian economy if Budapest does not lift its veto on aid to Kiev at a summit in Brussels on 1 February.