In the Voks 2025 referendum, 95 percent of those who cast their votes, said no to Ukraine’s EU membership, the Prime Minister announced in Brussels on Thursday. Viktor Orbán said ahead of the EU summit in Brussels that the number of votes cast was 2,284,732, of which 2,168,431 were against Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
The head of state noted that he had arrived in Brussels with a strong mandate: “My voice has become stronger and more masculine, and I will say at the negotiations, on behalf of more than two million Hungarians, that Hungary does not support Ukraine’s accession to the European Union,” he pointed out.
When asked whether he thought it was conceivable that Hungary would be bypassed at the EU summit and that 26 or 25 member states would adopt a joint statement on Ukraine’s EU membership, the Prime Minister said Hungary cannot be bypassed on the issue of Ukraine’s EU membership because, in the end, and during the negotiations, a unanimous decision is required to open each cluster. “This is not the case, thus it will not happen. Nothing can happen today that has legal effect on Ukraine’s EU membership,” he said.
He noted that
statements can be made, discussions can be held, but the European Union will not have a common position because Hungary does not support it.”
“Those who disagree with us, whether there are 26 of them or however many, can say what they want; there is freedom here too,” he added.
️ Breaking! 95% of Hungarians said a clear NO in the VOKS 2025 public vote on Ukraine’s fast-tracked EU accession, as @PM_ViktorOrban announced.
⚠️ Ukraine’s EU membership would bring serious dangers—from rising crime and collapsing Hungarian agriculture to EU funds being… pic.twitter.com/5RibAiLMwG
— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) June 26, 2025
“With Ukraine’s EU membership, war would also be integrated into the European Union, which poses a threat. We do not want to be in a community with a country that is at war,” he noted.
Responding to a question, the prime minister said that Hungary had undoubtedly received “very good offers” in connection with the 18th EU sanctions package, but that they were “still working on it a little.”
When asked about the resolution of the US-European trade war, he replied that he was pessimistic, saying that the problem was that there was a “heavyweight negotiator” on the American side, while the European Union had “lightweight” negotiating partners, meaning that the American President had the upper hand in this case.
On the issue of migration, he said that the Hungarian position on this issue is one of rebellion. He added that they have discussed a hundred times how to make EU rules on migration more effective, but nothing is happening. The only way to stop migration is to do what Hungary is doing, namely, not allowing anyone to enter Hungarian territory without a valid entry permit issued by the Hungarian authorities, he explained. He called on all his EU colleagues to revolt against migration, reminding them that Hungarians have to pay one million euros a day to stop migrants. “This is the price of revolution,” he noted.
When asked whether the law banning Pride should be enforced by means of violence, i.e., by dispersing the crowd, Viktor Orbán replied:
Hungary is a civilized country where everyone can assemble and everyone can express their opinion; this is a constitutional right.” At the same time, he emphasized that when constitutional rights conflict, no right can take precedence over child protection rights, because the constitution states that child protection rights take precedence over all other freedoms.
“We ask everyone not to do this, but if someone does, there is a clear legal system that must be enforced in such cases,” he said, emphasizing that Hungary is a civilized country where “we do not hurt each other.” “This is a country that has never had a civil war, maybe a little in ’56, but even if we do not agree with each other, we do not hurt each other. That is not part of Hungarian politics,” he said.
Related article
Storm of Reactions after Zelenskyy Claims Most Hungarians Are for Ukraine’s EU Accession
President Zelenskyy claims Prime Minister Orbán’s anti-Ukrainian stance is politically motivated, while Hungarian officials accuse Kyiv of interference in national sovereignty.Continue reading
A legjobb élmény biztosítása érdekében olyan technológiákat használunk, mint a cookie-k az eszközadatok tárolására és/vagy eléréséhez. Ha beleegyezik ezekbe a technológiákba, akkor olyan adatokat dolgozhatunk fel ezen az oldalon, mint a böngészési viselkedés vagy az egyedi azonosítók. A hozzájárulás elmulasztása vagy visszavonása bizonyos funkciókat és funkciókat hátrányosan érinthet.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
