BUDAPEST, December 28. /TASS/. The EU should refrain from admitting Ukraine because this step would completely change the community's financing system and entail extremely negative consequences for its economy, the leader of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CDPP) faction in the Hungarian parliament has said.
The Christian Democrats are junior partners of the ruling Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Alliance party. Their coalition has an overwhelming majority of seats in the national legislature.
"The real problem is that none of the EU institutions have studied this [the consequences of Ukraine's accession to the EU] in detail. However, there is no doubt that the catastrophic condition of Ukraine's economy, its vast territory and incredibly high risk of corruption would completely reshape the EU’ current funding system," said Istvan Szymicszko in an interview with the Magyar Nemzet newspaper.
"The system of farmland subsidies would also be broken. Not to mention the fact that there are no legal or other conditions for Ukraine to join the European Union. By the way, what borders Ukraine would have at the moment of accession? What population does it have? We should not forget that that country is at war with Russia. Millions of people its people have fled their homeland," Szymicszko said.
He said he "sympathizes with the Ukrainian people, who deserve peace and a better quality of life."
However, there are many questions about Ukraine's aspirations to join the EU, but "there is no official and reassuring answer to them yet," Szymicszko recalled. In his opinion, "without answers [to these questions], Ukraine will not be able to enter the European Union."
At the EU summit in Brussels on December 14-15, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Ukraine was not yet ready to join the community, because it had not met the necessary conditions for this, and the EU itself did not have sufficient financial resources for that purpose. Nevertheless, he failed to persuade the leaders of the other 26 EU member states to change their mind.