“He says what is also our position. The European Commission has the idea of accelerated membership. That will not happen,” Sikorski commented on Magyar’s position in an interview with the RMF24 station. He also rejects the accelerated integration of Ukraine into the European Union with the argument that it is a country at war, the Unian agency noted.
“We believe that Ukraine must meet all the conditions, just as the rest of us had to,” added the head of Polish diplomacy, adding that Kyiv still faces difficult talks. “Of course, there will also be difficult parts of the negotiations, such as agriculture or transport,” outlined Sikorski.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi previously said, among other things, that his country, which is resisting the Russian invasion, would like admission to the EU by 2027 as part of security guarantees. Despite Sikorský’s statement, this accelerated adoption was also rejected by the European Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kosová, who described such a term as “impossible”.
“Let’s have this discussion with one starting point – full membership comes only after full reforms,” Kosova said in February. According to Unian, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Ukrainian Government for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Taras Kačka, still claims that the European Union has not yet finished discussions on the possibility of Ukraine joining the bloc in 2027.
After Magyar’s victorious campaign, Poland and Hungary will probably understand each other better than during the last years of the reign of the outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Magyar has already let it be known that his first trip in the role of prime minister will lead to Warsaw.
