MEP: More than 1.2 million sign petition on Ukraine’s potential EU membership

Csaba Dömötör said fast-tracking Ukraine into the EU would “devastate the already struggling European economy”.

Fidesz MEP Csaba Dömötör told a forum in Zalaegerszeg on Monday that more than 1.2 million people have already returned the questionnaire on Ukraine’s potential EU membership, which would have an impact on the lives of all Europeans as well as the continent’s future.

Addressing the latest leg of Fidesz party’s national tour, the MEP said fast-tracking Ukraine into the EU would “devastate the already struggling European economy”.

Dömötör said Brussels was treating it as a foregone conclusion that all accession chapters would be opened this year, aiming for Ukraine to achieve full membership by 2030.

Rather than taking the candidate’s merits into account, “the Brussels elite believes its diktat must be accepted”, he added.

Cohesion funds and agricultural subsidies for Hungary, he said, would be reduced drastically, and markets, including in agriculture, may even open before full membership, with “severe consequences” and big losses for Hungarian farmers, Dömötör said.