Sandor Zsiros – Euro News Oct 2, 2025

At the European Political Community meeting in Copenhagen, Hungary’s leader accused the EU of preparing “war plans” and rejected calls for Ukraine’s EU membership, saying that a strategic partnership is needed instead.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán launched a new scathing attack against the majority of EU leaders over the plans to counter Russian incursions into member states’ airspaces, as discussed at the EU summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday.

On his arrival at the European Political Community gathering in Copenhagen on Thursday, Orbán announced that “the EU has decided to go to war” and that at Wednesday’s informal EU summit, they presented their war strategy on how to defeat the Russians, which he labelled as “horrifying”.

He referred to the EU leaders’ decision to give “broad support” to proposals to ramp up the development of drone and anti-drone technology and to use immobilised Russian assets to loan money to Ukraine.

“Leaders broadly supported initial priority flagship projects that will strengthen Europe’s security, including the European drone wall and the Eastern Flank Watch,” European Council President Antonio Costa told reporters at the end of the informal gathering in the Danish capital.

According to Orbán, this direction is detrimental to Hungary and the entire European Union. The prime minister announced that the governing party will launch a petition against what he called “the EU’s war plans.”

“The pressure is great. So I will suggest to the Fidesz presidency that we start a signature campaign in Hungary against the EU’s war plans. Because we need all our strength to stay out of this war,” Orbán said.

Orban says ‘the Costa plan is dead’

The Hungarian prime minister also discussed how he rejected the idea floated at the summit to amend the EU’s enlargement rules to facilitate Ukraine’s accession talks.

The so-called Costa plan suggested lifting the unanimity required for the opening of each negotiating chapter.

Changing the rules also requires unanimity, and Hungary will veto Ukraine’s EU accession, according to Orbán.

“I told them, I do not agree, so this plan is dead,” Orbán said.

The Hungarian premier also repeated his position that, instead of a full EU membership, Ukraine should get a strategic partnership with the EU, which he called “a better idea”. The full membership would mean, in his view, that “the war would enter the European Union.”

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