Hungary's PM Viktor Orban says he will continue to oppose EU plan to provide a $19-billion aid package to Ukraine in 2023
The aid package to Ukraine is one of several top priorities for the EU that Hungary's government has blocked or delayed in recent months.
“The question is how to help Ukraine,” Orban said. “One proposal says that we should use the budgets of the EU member states to take out new loans together and use that money to give to Ukraine. We are not in favour of this because we do not want the European Union to become a community of indebted states instead of a community of cooperating member states.”
Orban earlier indicated that Hungary would be willing to provide Ukraine with 60-70 billion forints from its own budget on bilateral terms — an amount he said would not fundamentally harm Hungary’s national interests. Yet efforts in Brussels to bring Hungary into line with the EU's democratic standards have not led to a more conciliatory posture from Budapest on many issues. On Friday, Orban blasted the EU's sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, blaming them for skyrocketing prices. He referred to EU officials pushing for sanctions as being “on the side of war.”
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