The Hungarian government has launched an information campaign concerning the upcoming referendum on Ukraine’s EU admission because "Brussels is preparing to make another landmark decision without seeking the public’s opinion," Balázs Hidvéghi, a state secretary of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office, said on Wednesday.
In a video on Facebook, Hidvéghi said Brussels wanted the people to "pay the price of Ukraine's forced EU membership".
Hidvéghi said European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "have already agreed that they will force through Ukraine’s EU membership within a few years, and anyone who dares oppose this will be attacked mercilessly".
Hidvéghi said the only reason why Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar had been allowed to join the EPP because he had accepted their condition that he would stand with Ukraine, even if it meant opposing the opinion of the Hungarian people
Magyar’s ongoing signature drive, Hidvéghi added, was actually about "delivering to Brussels a result that shows that Hungarians stand by Ukraine, because they’re even capable of forgery".
Hungarians, he said, had a right to know that Ukraine’s admission to the EU posed several dangers that would lead to "irreversible change in the life of Hungary and all of Europe". "This would cost Hungary and every Hungarian family a lot of money," he added.
"We would lose significant amounts of EU funds, they would deprive Hungarians of agricultural subsidies, the Ukrainian underworld would be let loose on Hungary, bringing with it crime, arms and drug smuggling," the state secretary said. "The market would be flooded with poor quality and often dangerous Ukrainian food products, the pension system would be upended, not to mention the imported epidemics that would endanger children and the elderly."
"Let’s not let them make a decision over our heads," Hidvéghi said.