{"id":1543642,"date":"2025-06-25T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1543642"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:05:00","slug":"ukraine-is-not-in-nato-my-job-is-to-keep-it-that-way-orban-tells-press-outside-nato-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/ukraine-is-not-in-nato-my-job-is-to-keep-it-that-way-orban-tells-press-outside-nato-summit\/1543642\/","title":{"rendered":"“Ukraine Is Not In NATO, My Job Is To Keep It That Way”, Orb\u00e1n Tells Press Outside NATO Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Ukraine Is Not In NATO, My Job Is To Keep It That Way”, Orb\u00e1n Tells Press Outside NATO Summit<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n voiced skepticism over proposed NATO plans to raise defense spending to 5 percent of member states\u2019 GDP, calling the target unworkable under existing EU budgetary constraints and warning of economic consequences if Brussels doesn\u2019t radically change its fiscal framework.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are able to do it, it is not easy,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Orb\u00e1n said at the NATO summit in The Hague on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the whole calculation of budget regulation of the European Union must be changed. So if we keep the regulations as it is, nobody in the European Union can fulfill 5 percent, whatever they say. We have to recalculate everything in a different method; in that case, we can do it.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n\u2019s comments reflect his broader concern that NATO is drifting into dangerous territory \u2014 both financially and geopolitically. Rather than supporting yet another push toward militarization, the Hungarian leader emphasized that Europe\u2019s real threat is not military in nature but economic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real threat is not security-wise, it is economic and losing our competitiveness in global trade,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> he said. \u201cThat\u2019s our problem.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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He also reiterated his long-standing opposition to NATO involvement in Ukraine, restating Hungary\u2019s commitment to keeping the alliance out of the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO has no business in Ukraine,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Orb\u00e1n said plainly.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine is not a member of NATO, nor is Russia. And my job is to keep it as it is.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 Orb\u00e1n: “NATO has no business in Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of NATO. My job is to keep it as it is.” pic.twitter.com\/fkhF5gbl1S<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n has repeatedly argued that escalating military aid and deepening Western involvement risk prolonging the war and damaging European interests. His administration has opposed further sanctions on Russia and has long expressed concern over the possibility of NATO and EU membership for Kyiv in the current climate.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Hungarian prime minister hit back at thinly veiled criticism of his administration from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky \u2014 an honorary guest at the summit in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Zelensky suggested that it is \u201cunfair when a single party blocks the Union\u2019s decision,\u201d referencing Hungarian opposition to further negotiations with Kyiv on EU membership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In response, Orb\u00e1n wrote on X, \u201cPresident, with all due respect: the European Union was founded to bring peace and prosperity to its member states. Accepting a country that is at war with Russia would immediately drag the EU into a direct conflict. It is unfair to expect any member state to take this risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other remarks in The Hague, Orb\u00e1n further highlighted his alignment with U.S. President Donald Trump, praising what he called Trump\u2019s \u201ccommon sense\u201d approach to foreign policy<\/strong> and suggesting that a shift in Washington\u2019s leadership is already having a stabilizing effect on global conflicts.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Hungarian PM Viktor Orb\u00e1n: “The President of the United States is a man of common sense. We see the wars getting shorter, which is the consequence of his activity.” pic.twitter.com\/ZhzTpFJZYL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe international order is more based on common sense,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said. \u201cAnd the president of the United States is a man of common sense, as you have seen, just recently, to manage the conflict between Iran and Israel. So, he is the man of common sense, which means that the new wars are getting shorter and the old wars are running out of fuel, which is the consequence of his activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more here…<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 06\/25\/2025 – 11:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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