"Hungary has accused the European Union of abandoning its own rules and pursuing what it described as ‘war fanaticism’, warning that recent decisions on Ukraine risk dragging the entire European continent into conflict. "If I had to briefly summarise the lesson of today’s agenda item on Ukraine, I would say that even Europe’s own rules no longer matter," Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said, after discussions in Brussels. "Brussels is prepared to break every existing rule just to drag the entire European continent into war." Szijjarto criticised proposals for deeper military engagement with Ukraine. "We have now reached the point where there is talk of building arms factories in Ukraine," he said, adding that such moves were being "delicately referred to as an investment in the Ukrainian military industry," which he dismissed as ‘nonsensical’. The Hungarian minister added that EU military training missions on Ukrainian territory would create "a risk of escalation that would put Hungary and the Hungarian people in grave danger," adding that Hungary had consistently blocked the proposal, despite pressure. Szijjarto also questioned the financial and military support for Kiev, criticising plans to fund Ukraine outside the EU’s unanimity rules. "They would spend 46 trillion forints ($140.6 billion, 120 billion Euro) to arm a country that borders Hungary, is not part of the same integration as Hungary, and is not a NATO member," he said. "And they want to send 80 trillion forints ($244.5 billion, 208 billion Euro) to a country where corruption is organised at the state level, where a war mafia operates." He argued that bypassing unanimity undermined the EU’s credibility on democratic standards. "The argument used by the European Union to circumvent the requirement for unanimity effectively renders any future statements by the European Union on the rule of law or democracy ridiculous and untrustworthy," Szijjarto said, accusing Brussels of violating its own rules "to such an extent that it is no longer a case of the horse’s hooves, but the entire stable." He also declared that EU membership for Kiev would not provide security guarantees for Ukraine, but would instead risk "importing war into the European Union," and reiterated Budapest's opposition to seizing frozen Russian state assets, warning of potential repercussions. The remarks come amid renewed diplomatic activity on Ukraine. Following US–Ukraine talks in Berlin, European leaders, including UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Earlier, Zelensky suggested he could drop demands for NATO membership and instead pursue US and European ‘Article Five-like’ security guarantees. US President Donald Trump, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Moscow have repeatedly said that NATO membership would not be possible as part of any peace settlement."