Polish FM Urges Opposition to Convince Hungary to Unblock Ukraine’s EU Path

On 18 March 2025, Notes from Poland report­ed that Poland’s For­eign Min­is­ter Radosław Siko­rs­ki has called on the Pol­ish oppo­si­tion to lever­age their close ties with Hun­gar­i­an Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Orbán to stop block­ing Ukraine’s EU acces­sion process. The arti­cle begins:

Poland’s for­eign min­is­ter, Radosław Siko­rs­ki, says Hun­gary is block­ing efforts to move for­ward with Ukraine’s planned acces­sion to the Euro­pean Union. He called on the con­ser­v­a­tive Pol­ish oppo­si­tion, which enjoys close rela­tions with Hun­gar­i­an Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Orbán, to per­suade their ally to drop his oppo­si­tion. Siko­rs­ki also called on US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to ensure, dur­ing his dis­cus­sions with Vladimir Putin about a peace deal with Ukraine, that he per­suades the Russ­ian leader to drop his “absurd demands”. Speak­ing on Mon­day after a meet­ing of EU for­eign min­is­ters in Brus­sels, Siko­rs­ki said that Poland, as the coun­try cur­rent­ly hold­ing the EU’s six-month rotat­ing pres­i­den­cy, feels “par­tic­u­lar respon­si­bil­i­ty” for mak­ing progress on Kyiv’s path to acces­sion, which is “an anchor of Ukrain­ian morale”. “But I have to state with regret that this is anoth­er mat­ter in which the deci­sion is being blocked by our old friend, once an ally, the Repub­lic of Hun­gary,” added the Pol­ish for­eign min­is­ter, quot­ed by broad­cast­er TVN.

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Key Points:

• Siko­rs­ki empha­sized Poland’s respon­si­bil­i­ty as EU pres­i­den­cy hold­er to advance Ukraine’s acces­sion process, call­ing it vital for Ukrain­ian morale.
• Hun­gary recent­ly issued 12 demands to Brus­sels, with the final point explic­it­ly stat­ing: “A Union, but with­out Ukraine.”
• The Pol­ish oppo­si­tion par­ty PiS main­tained close rela­tions with Orbán, despite ten­sions over their dif­fer­ing posi­tions on Ukraine.
• Siko­rs­ki expressed hope that Trump can con­vince Putin to aban­don “absurd demands” in ongo­ing peace nego­ti­a­tions between Rus­sia and Ukraine.

The Pol­ish Law & Jus­tice Par­ty is well known as a nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal par­ty, while Orban and Hun­gary have fig­ured promi­nent­ly in a devel­op­ing alliance between US con­ser­v­a­tives and Euro­pean nation­al­ists, a poten­tial means for Rus­sia to exert covert influ­ence in Europe and the US using Hun­gary as a plat­form. GIOR has pub­lished a report on this alliance titled “The Nation­al Con­ser­vatism Alliance: An Oppor­tu­ni­ty for Russ­ian Influ­ence?” The GIOR report details the role that Vik­tor Orban and the Hun­gar­i­an gov­ern­ment have been play­ing in the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA).

The full report can be down­loaded here.

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