On Monday, the Hungarian prime minister published a message on his page X in which he referred to the results of a poll conducted by the Századvég Foundation. He stressed that an overwhelming percentage of Europeans demanded an end to the Ukrainian war and that, in his opinion, the EU was directly opposed to this.
Viktor Orbán wrote on X:
The numbers are clear, the Brussels bureaucrats do not represent the European people!
The results of the Századvég Foundation poll show that 71 per cent of Europeans want the war in Ukraine to end, while 73 per cent also want peace talks. Similarly, 67 per cent of respondents were against sending their compatriots to Ukraine, while 25 per cent were in favour of such a move.
Europeans were also divided over Brussels’ policy of providing military aid to Ukraine. Most respondents from Eastern European countries, with the exception of Poland and the Baltics, were against providing arms to Kyiv, while Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, France and Italy were also against the move.
However, the majority in favour of military aid was received in the Scandinavian countries, the Baltics, the UK, Spain and Portugal.
Hungary strongly opposes European Commission plans to push ahead with EU membership talks with Kyiv despite the ongoing conflict. Hungarian officials have warned Brussels that it risks bringing “war to Europe.”
Another Századvég Foundation survey released on Monday found that 72 per cent of Hungarians support their government’s stance against Ukraine’s EU membership, a monthly sentiment indicator that shows opposition to the move has grown every month since September.
The think tank warned that if Ukraine joins, “almost all member states would become net donors or current agricultural subsidies would have to be cut by an average of 20 per cent” to provide for “Ukrainian farmers working on the richest farmland in Europe”.
