The EU’s Approach to Ukraine’s Accession to the bloc exhibits the same defective mindset characterizing the European bureaucracy’s approach to migration: let us bring them in, they will surely integrate and become model citizens. Hundreds of child grooming gangs, countless terror attacks, violent migrant street gangs and endemic sexual violence against women, the EU still believes in the Marxist concept of crime as a phenomenon that has nothing to do with culture, the moral fabric and traditions of a nation, only as one being a matter of social conditions.
As far as the ever growing realm of euro-absurdities goes, this week’s trophy is uncontested: it belongs to the Slovenian-born Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos. In a reply to Hungarian MEP Viktória Ferenc inquiring about well-documented grave human rights abuses committed during mobilization in Ukraine, the EU politician acknowledged that the the Commission was “aware of the violations, but would postpone addressing them until after the opening of accession negotiations.” We do not have the exact wording of her response but if Ferenc’s interpretation is correct, the EU is not only turning a blind eye in order to reward the Zelenskyy government that is waging a proxy war with Russia on their behalf, but also holding the country’s ethnic minorities, among them Hungarians, hostage to their ideological goals.
As MEP Ferenc points our, respect for human rights does not currently seem to be a condition for opening accession talks, instead, the promise of a possible EU membership is being used as a magic wand to remedy violations after the fact. “This logic is contrary to the fundamental values of the EU and raises concerns about the integrity and credibility of the accession process,” said the MEP for Fidesz-KDNP (Patriots of Europe). She also pointed out that the issue is directly affecting the numerous Hungarian community in Transcarpathia (Western Ukraine). She referred to incidents such as the intimidation and forced conscription of Hungarian students, or the circumstances surrounding the death of József Sebestyén, a local man who had succumbed to injuries suffered during violent conscription.
The Slovenian Commissioner’s deeply flawed reply to these concerns is not simply a matter of an isolated gaffe by a single left-wing Eurocrat, albeit Ms. Kos is not alien to bitter controversies even in her own native country. This ideologically driven complacency at the expense of European citizen’s safety and welfare is characteristic of the entire German-dominated European proto-empire. They are knowingly importing a war-ravaged, impoverished country led by a kleptocratic regime, where corruption is so endemic and deep-rooted that Ukraine used to be brought up as a warning among its neighbors even during communist times – alongside the warmness, kindness, and unparalleled hospitality of its people, one should add. Yet the Commission seems to be intentionally tone-deaf even to evidence pointing at serious far-right political extremism and ultra-nationalist tendencies among its leading class.
Commissioner Marta Kos, Photo: Laurie DIEFFEMBACQ, Copyright European Union 2025
The commissioner’s reaction also implies another worrying element, namely that EU bureaucrats are signaling towards the Hungarian government that they are only willing to address known serious human rights abuses visited on the Hungarian minority in return for a signature on Ukraine’s EU membership application from Budapest. This would be an outright political blackmail of the most cynical kind. However, the government of Viktor Orbán is extremely unlikely to be tempted by such an “offer.” The current EU bureaucracy has proved itself to be entirely uninterested in dealing with the rights of indigenous ethnic minorities within other current EU Member States, such as the long-standing grievances of Hungarians in Transylvania (Romania), or the current scandal around the so-called WWII Benes Decrees in Slovakia, that in effect brand all members of the German and Hungarian minority in the country collective war criminals. Few will forget the light spontaneity with which Vera Jourová, former Vice President of the European Commission, swept the so-called Minority SafePack off the table, alongside one million signatures from citizens from various EU Member States.
If we insist on the minority rights of Hungarians in Ukraine, we are not doing something against Ukraine. We are just doing our job. And it is not a part of the electoral campaign. It was always part of our policy. pic.twitter.com/JLgNn9JyUh
— Ferenc Viktória (@MEP_Ferenc) November 13, 2025
Except, of course, that Hungarian parliamentary elections are coming in April, and the European bureaucracy is counting on their protégé, Péter Magyar’s victory, despite several opinion polls pointing in the other direction. This could clearly be Magyar’s ticket to unilaterally overwriting the will of the Hungarian people who overwhelmingly oppose Ukraine’s EU membership. A vague promise of a better life for Hungarians in Transcarpathia from the Commission in exchange for his signature on a document initiating Ukraine’s accession talks could give him the way out of going against overwhelming public opinion. Ukraine’s current leadership is already making active efforts to help along such a scenario.
There are multiple reasons for believing that the Orbán government will not budge to any pressure to allow Ukraine into the EU, nor will they accept deals sweetening such a would be u-turn against their long-term narrative. Although President Zelenskyy has hinted at the fact that part of the package of guarantees that he is willing to sign a U.S. brokered peace deal should involve a membership in the European Union by 2027, not even President Trump would be able to coerce Budapest into agreeing to such conditions. The only way forward for Ms. Kos and her superiors is bypassing the European Union’s fundamental charter in contravention of European rules, but there is no doubt that there would be an enormous price to be paid for such a frivolous act in terms of the credibility and future of the European Union.
Featured Image: Daina Le Lardic, Copyright: European Union 2024
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