If Hungary applies for EU membership today, it will be necessary to examine how it stands for the rule of law and corruption-free public life, the European Commission president said.

Ursula von der Leyen said at a discussion in Brussels, where he participated in the meeting, that the accession of ten new members to the European Union on May 1, 2004 was a success story. People's word Share also. According to the newspaper, the President of the European Commission spoke about how the largest enlargement of the European Union gave a major boost to the European economy, and since then unemployment in the ten new member states has been reduced by half, and the entire European Union has learned a lot from the “bitter experience” that Central Europe obtained from the Union. Soviet.

On the question of whether Hungary would be accepted into the EU if it wanted to join today, von der Leyen gave a politely evasive answer: In that case, Hungary would wait for the same process as for all those wishing to join – but he emphasized that they would also study what… If the country meets the requirements of corruption-free public life as well as the rule of law and a stable justice system.

He also added: Hungary has given a great gift to the European Union and to all of humanity in the person of Katalin Karikó. And we should appreciate that very much.