Hungarian Parliament Speaker Kövér warns that membership would increase the likelihood of military clashes.
Hungarian Parliament Speaker László Kövér warns that Finland and Sweden’s planned NATO membership could increase the likelihood of military conflict. Kövér announced on Friday night on Hir-TV that a parliamentary delegation made up of members of the ruling right-wing Fidesz party would travel to Stockholm and Helsinki next Tuesday and Wednesday.
In detail, Kövé justified the trip before the ratification of Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO with previous attacks by these two countries on Hungary, which is important to clarify. He accused NATO and the EU of not taking any steps towards peace, but of further intensifying the war in Ukraine, as Hungarian news agency MTI reported on Saturday.
Smear campaign against the Hungarian parliament
A “hate campaign” was being waged against the Hungarian parliament because ratification of NATO membership was being delayed. Furthermore, the two Scandinavian countries cannot join the defense alliance until Turkey agrees to ratify it. That probably won’t happen before the elections in Turkey. Because of arms deliveries to Ukraine, NATO and EU countries became part of the war. This danger is immeasurable, one can see an eerie resemblance to the time before the First and Second World Wars.
Kövér also emphasized in connection with the EU’s rule of law process against Hungary that the tone, wording and priorities remind him of the later years of the Soviet occupation. Only here the Jourová doctrine replaced the Brezhnev doctrine, criticized the speaker of parliament. Czech Vera Jourová is vice-president of the EU Commission.
Finland and Sweden applied to join the western defense alliance last May, under the impression of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. All 30 NATO countries must ratify membership. Along with Turkey, Hungary is the last NATO country that has yet to ratify the two states’ membership.
(APA)