Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said that a fair peace in Ukraine would be impossible without addressing a crucial issue affecting Hungarians and other national minorities living in the country. The Hungarian community in Transcarpathia is indigenous, residing there due to the post-World War II peace treaties.
Deputy PM Semjén: dair peace agreement and ethnic minorities’ rights
A fair peace agreement for Ukraine is not possible before the rights of ethnic minorities are secured, deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said in the Fight Hour podcast on Tuesday.
Semjén, the leader of the junior ruling Christian Democrats, also said that the Hungarian government would, in any case, continue support for ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region, providing them supplements to their income “to ensure the community’s survival”.
Semjén called the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transcarpathia (KMKSZ) “the sole legitimate representative” of the community, adding that “Hungary would never recognise the pseudo-Hungarian organisations they are trying to replace KMKSZ with”.
He said Ukraine would need “a realistic peace agreement” and security guarantees, but added that the country could never join NATO “because that would mean a third world war”.
Tisza leader hates PM Orbán
Referring to Hungary’s opposition Tisza, Semjén said that party “has no spiritual content, no ideology. In fact they don’t even have experts”, while its leader Péter Magyar is “motivated only by seething hatred for [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán and his government”.
“We are well, we are strong, we are united,” he said, adding that the Fidesz-led government was instituting governing innovations that were unparalleled in the world and was on course to win the 2026 election.
EU must boost competitiveness, not introduce war economy, EU minister says
Rather than introduce a war economy, the European Union should get real on competitiveness and reduce energy prices, János Bóka, the EU affairs minister, said before a meeting of counterparts in Brussels on Tuesday.
Boka said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s speech last week assessing the state of the union indicated that the commission was preparing the ground for a war economy, which would draw Europe deeper into the Russia-Ukraine war while directing even more European taxpayers’ money towards Ukraine.
But little in her speech pointed to how to handle real problems straining the bloc, namely its lack of competitiveness, high energy prices, and housing difficulties, he said. High energy prices, he added, were not linked to Russian oil and natural gas purchases but to flawed EU policies, such as sanctions, trade and industrial measures, as well as the green transition.
Ukraine’s EU accession
“Without a turnaround in these areas, energy prices won’t fall,” Bóka said. Regarding von der Leyen’s reference to housing subsidies, the minister noted that Hungary had launched “various successful and effective programmes” in the past decade and a half, and young people were now starting to be able to own property instead of renting.
Bóka said the commission should stop hampering such Hungarian initiatives. Asked about Ukraine’s EU prospects, Bóka said that bypassing member states in the accession process was impossible legally and politically, as doing so would contravene the EU treaties. While member states “can hold discussions with non-EU countries on their own initiative, this has no legal weight,” he said in the statement.
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Why should the money of Hungarians go to Ukrainians, Romanians and Serbs? These ethnic Hungarians do not live in Hungary and are citizens of other countries working in those countries and paying taxes to those countries. They do not pay any taxes to the Hungarian state so why should Hungary send “supplements” to them. It’s called money for votes. Fidesz gives citizenship to these people some of which have never set foot in Hungary and then sends them “supplements” followed by a ballot to vote for them every four years. Why wouldn’t you vote for a party that gives you free money for nothing. What Fidesz is doing is giving political power to non-residents to influence election results and diluting the votes of Hungarians inside Hungary.
A political slogan during the American Revolution in the fight to bring democratic rule was “No taxation without representation”. What Fidesz has done is turned it on its’ head and given “representation without taxation”.
Larry, your take on that part of the article was 100% correct. It is nothing more than nakedbuying votes. Why wouldn’t outsiders (and they are outsiders) vote for who puts money in their pockets at no cost and without having to endure living in the poorest nation in the EU with a crumbling infrastructure, trashed medical system, failing public transport and on and on.