{"id":1381550,"date":"2026-04-13T18:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hungarys-new-leader-is-against-ukraines-eu-accession-but-will-not-block-the-loan-magyars-main-statements\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:20:15","slug":"hungarys-new-leader-is-against-ukraines-eu-accession-but-will-not-block-the-loan-magyars-main-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/hungarys-new-leader-is-against-ukraines-eu-accession-but-will-not-block-the-loan-magyars-main-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9ter Magyar Signals Split Stance: Against Ukraine\u2019s EU Bid, Open to Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hungarian opposition leader P\u00e9ter Magyar, whose party won the elections, opposed Ukraine&#8217;s accelerated accession to the EU but said he would not block a \u20ac90 billion loan for Kyiv.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European media are writing about this development.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"494\">Magyar stressed that Ukraine, as a country at war, cannot quickly gain membership in the European Union. According to him, all candidates should go through the same accession procedure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"692\">The politician also backed the \u20ac90 billion loan deal reached in Brussels in December. It stipulates that Hungary may not participate in financing alongside the Czech Republic and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"694\" data-end=\"816\">According to Magyar, the nation is struggling financially and cannot take on more debt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"818\" data-end=\"950\">&#8220;We received no EU funds and could not use them to develop the economy, so we cannot take out new loans,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1070\">At the same time, the politician noted that he sees no point in revising earlier agreements and advocates their implementation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1220\">According to him, unlike Viktor Orban, he is ready to allow this decision, which could unblock funding for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1222\" data-end=\"1360\">Separately, Magyar stated that he is ready for dialogue with Ukraine and plans to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to improve relations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1497\">He also emphasized that no one has the right to dictate to Ukraine the terms of ending the war and expressed hope that hostilities would cease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1497\">Previously, we reported that Hungary has almost completely processed the results of the vote.<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-vyznav-svoiu-porazku-chym-zavershylysia-vybory-v-uhorshchyni\/\">\u00a0According to the calculations, the opposition party &#8220;Tisa,&#8221; led by Peter Magyar, is leading by a wide margin, with 98.94% of the votes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1497\">We remind you that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-mzs-skasuvaly-rekomendatsii-ukraintsiam-utrymatysia-vid-poizdok-do-uhorshchyny\/\">the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has lifted its recommendations for citizens to refrain from traveling to Hungary.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p>Furthermore, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\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<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian opposition leader P\u00e9ter Magyar, whose party won the elections, opposed Ukraine&#8217;s accelerated accession to the EU but said he would not block a \u20ac90 billion loan for Kyiv. European media are writing about this development. Magyar stressed that Ukraine, as a country at war, cannot quickly gain membership in the European Union. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1365959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1381550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381550","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381642,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381550\/revisions\/1381642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}