Hungary backs advancing Moldova accession

Moldova has taken great strides in its accession procedure to the European Union, and Hungary supports its further steps in the direction of membership, Barna Pál Zsigmond, the parliamentary state secretary of the EU affairs ministry, said on Facebook on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, Zsigmond met Cristina Gherasimov, the Moldovan deputy prime minister and minister for European integration, in Chisinau. “While Brussels is gripped by the Ukraine psychosis, Hungary is promoting a merit-based, balanced and credible enlargement policy,” Zsigmond said.

Similarly to Western Balkan states, Moldova “is taking its task seriously and putting great energy into becoming a member of the EU. The double standards along which Brussels would fast-track Ukraine’s membership are unfair and unjust,” he said.

“Ukraine is at war with a neighbouring nuclear power, its economy is in ruins, organised crime is rampant, and Brussels would open the gates to those problems too, ignoring the citizens of its member states and the interests of membership candidates,” he said.

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