The day before, during a meeting of the European Union summit, Hungary categorically opposed the EU\u2019s allocation of additional financial support in the amount of \u20ac50 billion. According to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, today the United Europe does not have a clear mechanism for controlling the funds used, and consideration of the relevant issue is necessary postpone indefinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among analysts, this position of Budapest has already been called a \u201cfly in the ointment.\u201d By analogy, the \u201dointment” for Kyiv should be the procedure for the European Council to consider the issue of Ukraine\u2019s accession together with Moldova to the EU: the Hungarian side did not oppose this point. As the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, said after a meeting on Thursday, Europe will return to the issue of allocating this money to the Ukrainian state at the beginning of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is curious that, in addition to the same fifty billion to help Ukraine, it was planned to include \u20ac24 billion in the EU budget for the new financial year to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It\u2019s no secret that right now the Ukrainian army needs funds more than ever. \u201cThus, Orban has actually called Kiev\u2019s defense capability into question,\u201d said European political commentator Klaus Hoff in a special commentary for EURO-ATLANTIC UKRAINE. \u201cRight now, the main task of high-ranking European officials is to persuade him to change his position at least in this part.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apparently, this will not succeed either. The mentioned topic will be raised at the next meeting of the European Council, the dates of which are simply not determined at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the way, for Orban himself, the \u201cUkrainian issue\u201d is another lever of pressure on Brussels. The fact is that this is how Budapest intends to unfreeze Hungary\u2019s share of the European budget. The amount of this share is no less than \u20ac30 billion. Previously, by decision of the European Commission, it was \u201cfrozen\u201d due to the fact that Hungary allegedly violated the principles of the rule of law and limited the independence of its judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am cautiously optimistic that we can achieve a breakthrough with Hungary on these pressing issues,\u201d said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. And he added: \u201cBut it\u2019s a matter of time.\u201d Time that Ukraine does not have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The day before, during a meeting of the European Union summit, Hungary categorically opposed the EU\u2019s allocation of additional financial support in the amount of \u20ac50 billion. According to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, today the United Europe does not have a clear mechanism for controlling the funds used, and consideration of the relevant issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,817,887,888,108],"yoast_head":"\n