PM Orban: It’s Unacceptable for Ukrainian Secret Service to Orchestrate a Smear Campaign Against a NATO Member

In an exclusive interview with TV2's Tenyek program while attending the European Political Community summit, Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke about the dangers of Ukraine’s potential EU membership and the country's attacks against Hungary. He emphasized that admitting Ukraine to the EU would mean bringing the war into the European Union.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (Photo: MTI)

He emphasized:

Hungary would have to face a dozen problems that Ukrainian membership would cause, and we currently lack the tools to manage them. That’s why Ukraine must not be admitted into the European Union — not quickly, not slowly, not at all. These issues remain unresolved.”

When asked how calm he felt about the situation, he responded:

In my profession, the fundamental rule is that you have to sleep with one eye open. I would be cautious here because politics is a profession where results are born out of human interaction. So even if we didn’t make an inch of progress in a plenary session, I still spoke with many people, and others did too.

Orban noted that there were bilateral meetings, and some misunderstandings were clarified on the political stage.

International politics develops slowly. Even seemingly pointless gatherings can yield benefits and move us forward. So coming here to Tirana, meeting with European leaders, was not a waste of time or money. We made progress today; Hungary’s position is stronger than it was yesterday. Let’s not end the day thinking we worked in vain — rather, that we did our job, and it shows,

the Hungarian politician said referring to the European Political Community summit in Tirana.

The Mysterious Letter "H"

Regarding the mysterious “H” posted on his Facebook page, Orban explained it refers to a Sunday afternoon event where people who feel called by the letter “H” will gather.

There’s no big secret, but it will show that we haven’t been sleeping over the past few months. We knew Hungary was under attack. We also knew it couldn’t be repelled by the government’s efforts alone — we need patriots willing to stand up for the country, to fight for Hungary. From them, a political community must be organized to protect Hungary. This event will make that visible to anyone who’s interested.

Turning to economic matters, Orban said:

Hungary must participate in the most advanced industrial developments in the world. If we don’t, we’ll be left out. If we want to be strong in the future, we cannot fall behind in technology. We need investments that bring in new technologies. It always starts with factories, as it did with Audi. Then come the development engineers, then the research engineers, and eventually the European headquarters relocate to here too.

He noted:

We’ve reached an agreement with Chinese auto giant BYD on the factory in Szeged. Now we’ve discussed R&D. They’re relocating their European development center to Hungary. About 2,000 highly skilled development engineers will work there, and together we’ll conduct research in electromobility.

Orban emphasized:

We haven’t abandoned the insight — not originally ours but from the world’s smart minds — that the future of automobile manufacturing lies in electrification and electromobility. It will replace traditional machine production, ushering in an era of electric vehicle production.

He added:

Hungary wants to lead in this, just as we did with traditional vehicle production and development in the early 1990s. We have a national strategy, a grand strategy, and an industrial strategy in which car manufacturing plays a key role. And the key to that in the next 20 years is electromobility. That’s why the establishment of the Chinese development center in Hungary is so significant.

When asked what the best path to end the war would be, Orban said:

I believe a meeting should happen as soon as possible between President Trump and President Putin. Ideally, it should cover not only the war in Ukraine but also sanctions and economic cooperation. At the same time Europeans must understand there’s no point in going it alone — we should align with the Americans. We too should strike agreements with both the Ukrainians and the Russians, and these should include economic content. We must integrate both Ukrainian and Russian energy and economic potential into the bloodstream of the European economy. That’s how we’ll gain momentum, and that’s how Europe’s economy will once again become great and successful,

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban concluded.

Cover photo: Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (Photo: MTI)