Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sharply condemned the European Commission’s latest proposal to extort a massive new fund from European Union member states to finance Ukraine—calling it an unrealistic and unfair burden on Hungary.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has once again asked member states for additional financial contributions to support the war effort in Ukraine. The plan calls for an additional €135 billion over two years—almost three-quarters of the EU’s annual budget.
According to Orbán, this amount “simply does not exist,” and Brussels’ plan would effectively take the form of another joint European loan, which he says would significantly increase the debt burden on Hungarian children and grandchildren.
They’re asking us, Hungarians, to contribute to this. A country that’s fined €1 million a day because we do not let migrants in. A country that’s financially punished because it has its own position on the war and on gender ideology.
Orbán argued that the proposal is not only impossible but “categorically absurd.”
