EU members are starting to get fed up with the policies of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is “holding everyone hostage.”
The European Union will be able to bypass any Hungarian veto and provide Ukraine with 50 billion euros in aid. Reuters reported this on Friday, November 10, citing unnamed EU officials.
In particular, the EU has a Plan B – to ask for help from other Union countries separately to get the same amount through bilateral agreements.
At the same time, the interlocutor of the agency noted that this position of Hungary, which is a member of the EU, is exhausting to other countries of the bloc, and its policy is starting to become dangerous for Hungary itself.
“Hungary risks taking advantage of its luck. We would prefer to have it on board, but there comes a point that people will get tired of Budapest holding everyone hostage. The workaround is tiring, but we have it if needed,” said an EU official. agency.
Another EU official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, agreed. “The issue of money for Ukraine will be solved one way or another, Kyiv will receive EU support,” he said.
A day earlier, Bloomberg also reported about a similar plan to bypass the blockade in Hungary. But Spain’s Economy Minister Nadia Calvino, whose country holds the EU presidency, and European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said they were committed to reaching an agreement internally. of the framework of a long-term budget.
“We need to make rapid progress in adopting a mechanism for Ukraine. Last year we actually discussed Plan B,” Dombrovskis said at a press conference after a meeting of EU finance chiefs in Brussels .
He noted that this scenario had been avoided before, and expressed hope that the EU would also avoid it this year.
Let’s recall that the foreign ministers of the EU countries did not agree on the allocation of a tranche of 500 million euros from the European Peace Fund for military aid to Ukraine. The reason is Hungary.
In addition, the Hungarian government has threatened to veto the start of EU accession negotiations with Ukraine until Hungarian language requirements in education are met.
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Source: korrespondent
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