Friday, June 30, 2023

Hungarian PM Says Ukraine Must Explain How €70 Billion Was Spent

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Reuters  

Reuters: Hungary opposes EU plan to grant more money to Ukraine -PM Orban 

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary rejects the European Commission's plans to grant more money to Ukraine and is not willing to contribute additional money to finance the EU's increased debt service costs, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on Friday. 

Orban, speaking on the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels, said it was a "ridiculous" request from the Commission that Hungary should contribute more money, when Budapest - along with Poland - has not received funds from the EU's Recovery Fund amid a rule of law dispute. 

The European Union will provide Ukraine with 50 billion euros ($54.30 billion) in aid for 2024-27, the bloc's president said on June 20. This comes after a review of the EU's 2021-27 shared budget, which has been depleted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and an energy crisis. High inflation and interest rates have also doubled debt-servicing costs. 

"One thing is clear, we Hungarians ... will not give more money to Ukraine until they say where the previous around 70 billion euros worth of funds had gone," Orban said.  

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Update: Ukraine must explain how €70 billion was spent – EU state (RT)  

WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. There is going to be no accounting on how Ukraine is spending Western aid.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hungary should have already invaded Ukraine in the same way that Russia invaded Ukraine, who knows, maybe the truth will appear about BioLabs, Nazi cells and terrorists linked to the Islamic State, right..., evasion of international loans and billions being diverted to money laundering companies, resources being extorted among other absurdities, worst of them child trafficking, Ukraine today is at the top number 1 for child trafficking and the media is in absolute silence..., now we are understanding why Russia removes children from Ukrainian documentation, due to the risk of being minor with Russian nationality for locomotion already monitored, different from a country where it became a suburb similar to hell in flesh and blood, black magic just disgusting...

Anonymous said...

Well, there's the cars, the mansions, the apartments, the jets, the cocaine, the hookers..... It all mounts up you know.....

Anonymous said...

Well now that IS a good question and i bet if you can find a journalist with some cohones half the world would tune in....