{"id":1366467,"date":"2026-03-06T17:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/unacceptable-wording-the-european-commission-responded-to-zelensky-s-statement-regarding-orban\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:38:33","slug":"unacceptable-wording-the-european-commission-responded-to-zelensky-s-statement-regarding-orban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/unacceptable-wording-the-european-commission-responded-to-zelensky-s-statement-regarding-orban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUnacceptable wording\u201d: the European Commission responded to Zelensky\u2019s statement regarding Orban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Commission has criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s remarks about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Brussels said such statements about European Union member states are unacceptable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/news\/not-acceptable-brussels-slams-zelenskyy-as-kyiv-budapest-tensions-spiral\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Euractiv<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> European Commission Deputy Spokesperson Olof Gill commented on the statement of the President of Ukraine during a conversation with journalists on March 6.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cRegarding President Zelensky&#8217;s comments: we, as the European Commission, clearly state that such wording is unacceptable,\u201d said Olof Gill.<\/p>\n<p> He also emphasized that there should be no threats in relations between European Union countries.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThere should be no threats against EU member states,\u201d Olof Gill added.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he hopes to receive a 90 billion euro loan from the European Union to pay for weapons. According to him, these funds are currently blocked by Hungary.<\/p>\n<p> Zelensky also said that he would transfer the address of &#8220;one person&#8221; who is blocking the first tranche of the loan to the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cLet them call him and communicate in their own language,\u201d said Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p> In Hungary, the words of the Ukrainian president were called a &#8220;threat&#8221; and &#8220;blackmail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico also reacted to the situation and stated that such statements could influence the decisions of other European Union countries.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;If the Ukrainian president continues in the same spirit, it may happen that other EU member states will also block the 90 billion loan for Ukraine,&#8221; said Robert Fico.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-prohraie-vybory-i-tse-dozvolyt-vidnovyty-vidnosyny-z-uhorshchynoiu-zelenskyy\/\">President of Ukraine<\/a> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Volodymyr<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-prohraie-vybory-i-tse-dozvolyt-vidnovyty-vidnosyny-z-uhorshchynoiu-zelenskyy\/\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Zelenskyy<\/span><\/span> expressed the opinion that Hungarian Prime Minister <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Viktor Orban<\/span><\/span> may be defeated in the upcoming parliamentary elections<\/a> , after which Kyiv and Budapest will have the opportunity to restore full-fledged relations.<\/p>\n<p> Subsequently, the editor-in-chief of the publication &#8220;European Truth&#8221; Serhiy <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/holovnyy-redaktor-yevropeyskoi-pravdy-rozkrytykuvav-rytoryku-zelenskoho-dopomahaie-orbanu-vyhraty\/\">Sydorenko criticized Volodymyr Zelenskyy&#8217;s statement about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the leader of the Hungarian opposition party &#8220;Tisa&#8221; Peter <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorska-opozytsiia-vidreahuvala-na-slova-zelenskoho-pro-orbana\/\">Magyar came to the defense of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the statements of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s remarks about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Brussels said such statements about European Union member states are unacceptable. This is reported by Euractiv . European Commission Deputy Spokesperson Olof Gill commented on the statement of the President of Ukraine during a conversation with journalists on March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1366482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1366467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}