
Small Victory for Common Sense: European Council Decides Against Using Russian Assets To Finance Ukraine
Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia opted out of a mega loan to Kyiv that will impose yet another burden on European taxpayers.

Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia opted out of a mega loan to Kyiv that will impose yet another burden on European taxpayers.

The new EU budget may become a “strategic instrument of political ambition” that seeks to centralize power in Brussels.

The reforms seek to improve efficiency and security but come amid severe financial constraints.

Finland’s member of the European Court of Auditors denounces the lack of transparency in the EU’s budget management and warns of its political consequences.

The EU Commission’s new budget framework will only finance projects aligned with what it has decided are “EU priorities.”

The European People’s Party has branded the EU’s draft budget a disaster for agriculture, even though it backed earlier CAP reforms that raised costs for farmers.

Within two years, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary will all be led by sovereigntist governments, and together will be able to block “Ukraine budget,” the Hungarian PM predicted.

A supranational bureaucracy is trying to increase its own enormous budget while doing next to nothing to address fraudulent and erroneous EU spending.

“The intention is for all funds to be subjected to what is euphemistically termed ‘conditionality’… no sovereign nation should accept such an arrangement.”

The Hungarian leader also slammed the EU’s proposed spending plan for prioritising Ukraine over farmers.