Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, in a speech on the occasion of the anniversary of the Soviet suppression of the 1956 revolution, compared Hungary's membership in the EU to the more than forty-year Soviet occupation of his country.

In particular, he accused the EU of seeking to deprive Hungary of its identity by imposing a model of liberal democracy, which, according to him, Hungarians reject.

"Fortunately, what was once a tragedy is now at best a comedy. Fortunately, Brussels is not Moscow. Moscow was a tragedy. Brussels is just a bad modern parody," he added.

Hungary is currently blocking EU funds from being released to Ukraine.