Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the European Union remains incapable of undertaking a realistic assessment regarding the war in Ukraine, and "war psychosis is still rampant" in the bloc.
At a press conference after an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers, Minister Szijjártó lamented that most member states thought that the war’s territorial expansion did not carry a risk of escalation and that some of his counterparts had even said that allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike targets in Russia was “a way of achieving peace”. Szijjártó said that because of the extent to which “this goes against reality … we must conclude that this blind pro-war stance and pro-war psychosis will continue to hold sway here in Brussels in the coming months”. He said several member states urged the EU to allocate a further more than 6 billion euros from the European Peace Facility towards weapons deliveries, adding that Hungary “will not contribute to freeing up a single euro cent as long as Hungarian companies are discriminated against in Ukraine” and measures endangering Hungary’s energy security were in effect. He said there was also mounting pressure to expand and extend the EU’s training mission for Ukrainian soldiers, but Hungary was not participating in this, either.