The European Commission has reacted to the national consultations in Hungary on Ukraine’s membership in the European Union, calling them “unnecessary”. This was said by the representative of the Commission Guillaume Mercier.
“Our position is very clear. We take into account the results of these national consultations. The Hungarian government convened and organised this non-binding consultation. And, as you know, national consultations are a matter for national authorities,” Mercier said at a briefing.
At the same time, the European Commission representative noted that Ukraine was implementing reforms “under the most difficult circumstances imaginable”.
On 26 June, Hungary announced the final results of the referendum on Ukraine’s accession to the EU. The country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that 95 per cent of Voks2025 participants rejected Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
According to him, a total of 2 million 284 thousand people voted, of which 2 million 168 thousand (95%) were against Ukraine’s accession to the EU, while the remaining 5% voted in favour of supporting Ukraine. Hungary had 9.5 million people as of 2023.
Orban initiated Voks2025 in the spring of this year. The consultative referendum ran from April to 20 June 2025. Hungarians could vote both at special polling stations and online.
Hungarian publication Telex notes that the reported number of participants in the vote is approximately 29 per cent of the electorate.