Hungary continues to oppose 50 billion aid to Ukraine

According to Fars International News Agency, “Victor Orban”, the Prime Minister of Hungary, said on Tuesday that the European Union should not weaken the EU’s budget and deprive it of resources with its decisions to send aid to Ukraine. /p>

According to the Reuters news agency, Hungary opposes attempts to tamper with the EU budget in order to allocate 50 billion euros to Ukraine, as well as allocate more money for areas such as migration management. has done. European Union leaders are going to hold a meeting on February 1 (12th of February) to unblock the 50 billion euro aid package to Ukraine that Viktor Orban vetoed.

Orban in a conference “If we want to help Ukraine, we need to do it in a way that does not harm the European Union’s budget,” Pramabi said, emphasizing his continued opposition to this 50 billion euro aid for Ukraine. But to allocate 50 billion euros from the European Union budget for a four-year aid to Ukraine in advance violates the sovereignty and national interests of the European Union. We don’t even know what might happen after three months.”

The Prime Minister of Hungary, who recently made the condition of his support for this 50 billion euro aid necessary to approve each annual part of this aid separately. The value of 12.5 billion euros was announced in the same year when it was granted to Ukraine. He stated that the financial facilities of the European Union to Ukraine should be separate from the budget of this union. He pointed out that Hungary proposes to create a mechanism based on the allocation of aid based on gross national income. Ukraine helped out of the EU budget. If not, I will unfortunately stop this process.”

Orban made this press conference after his meeting with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. Echoing Orban’s position, Fico said that there is no military solution to the crisis in Ukraine after two years of Russian special military operations in the country. Fico also said that Slovakia is fighting Hungary stands by its interests and his government will not support any measure that would limit Budapest’s rights within the EU.

He said Orbán has a “legitimate right” to oppose changes in the European Union’s budget, and he announced his support for Budapest at the upcoming meeting of the Union’s heads of state. Kurds will support.” Recently, the Modern Diplomacy news site wrote in a report related to the war between Ukraine and Russia that it is unlikely that the United States will provide significant financial and military aid to Kiev in the near future. slow and whether Europe is really able to replace Washington is still open to question. Defense emphasizes, however, there is no guarantee that this Eastern European country will be supported by the West this year, as in 2022 and 2023. Especially since the possibility of significant military and financial assistance from the United States during the new year seems unlikely.”

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