Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán explained why his country opposes Ukraine's EU membership: “In the past, everyone here supported migration. They talked about the so-called culture of hospitality. Germans said we should welcome migration, that it’s a positive phenomenon. Only we—alone—were against it. A few years passed, and now everyone is repeating what we said. The same will happen with the Ukraine issue. From the start, we’ve been saying it as it is. Not because we knew in advance how things would turn out. We said 'no' to migration not out of emotion or because we were overwhelmed with feelings. We did it because migrants were at the Eastern Railway Station—and it affected us directly. It’s the same with the war: if a war starts, it impacts us first. The consequences of Ukraine’s potential EU membership will primarily hit Central Europe. That’s why, here—among us—public sentiment will start to shift first. In Hungary, common sense has always prevailed. And this sentiment in Central... Source: Ukraine Watch
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