Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán presented the priorities of the Hungarian presidency to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, claiming that 'Ukraine cannot win on the battlefield'.
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00:00According to Viktor Orban, Ukraine cannot win the war and the European Union should aim for a ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow.
00:10The Hungarian Prime Minister is in Strasbourg presenting the priorities of the Hungarian Council Presidency to the European Parliament.
00:17His press conference was interrupted by a member of a Hungarian opposition party.
00:22He threw fake banknotes on the PM calling him a traitor.
00:29Orban, who is often criticized for being supportive of Russia, told a room packed with reporters that better communication with President Putin was needed to get a ceasefire.
00:41Quizzed by Euronews, he conceded that in the meantime EU countries could keep up their military aid to Ukraine on a national basis.
00:50Those who think what we are doing as European Union is good and strategically right, let's support the Ukrainians.
00:59Those who disagree with that, like Hungary, we don't. That belongs to the national government.
01:05The Hungarian Prime Minister also called for stricter controls to detect migrants at the borders and hotspots outside the EU.
01:13And he doubled down on the request for his country to be exempt from the new EU migration policy.
01:20He also still seems ready to send refugees to Brussels to protest against it.
01:28We respect the European law, we respect all the regulations, but if somebody who gets an asylum in Hungary would like to come to Brussels, you know, we are ready to help them.
01:40Hungary's presidency started in July, but their diplomats have been facing boycotts and isolation in the EU institutions from the start.
01:49Parliament's rapporteur for the situation in Hungary believes Orbán is actively undermining the common European asylum system.
01:59He uses the rhetoric just, you know, to get more, a stronger position, to blackmail in order to get EU funding. It's a lot of rhetoric.
02:13And Orbán's biggest prize for the Hungarian presidency? To get Romania and Bulgaria fully into the Schengen area, apparently.