The Prime Minister of Hungary, the ultranationalist Viktor Orban, reiterated this Thursday that he does not support the European Union (EU) resorting to a joint loan to finance new aid to Ukraine of 50 billion euros.
"We do not want a joint credit," Orban reaffirmed at his annual meeting with the international press in Budapest.
The president considers that the aforementioned credit would be a "destructive" measure for the community budget.
Hungary's veto prevented the leaders of the Twenty-Seven from closing last week, at their last summit of the year, an agreement to provide Kiev with 50 billion euros between 2024 and 2027 and consensus was not achieved to increase the community budget in that time. same period.
Orbán criticized this Thursday that, from his point of view, the joint loan that was adopted for the Covid pandemic recovery fund has not worked, since "many community countries have not had access to these funds until now."
The prime minister was thus alluding to the fact that Brussels has frozen 22,000 million euros allocated to Budapest within the Cohesion Policy for breaches of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, of which last week it unlocked 10,200 million, after endorsing its reform judicial.
"Let everyone put on the table what they have intended," Orban asked, making it clear that he would support a solution in which all countries support Ukraine through bilateral agreements.
Orban is considered the best ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin among the heads of government of the EU member countries and frequently criticizes the sanctions adopted by the club against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, despite which until now Hungary has joined them.
