" I think that this is a kind of blackmail that some countries commit by trying to connect topics that are completely separate from each other, such as apples and bananas, and taxes and international companies," said Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday morning about the Polish veto waved at the EU summit in Brussels. In the end, Poland gave in to the pressure and withdrew its veto against the package, which included the global minimum tax, aid to Ukraine and Hungarian EU funds.
Dániel Deák, the XXI. The senior analyst of Szazad Intézet said: " There was a lot of pressure on them to stop this veto and they finally stopped. And thanks to this, the EU funds due to our country can finally arrive. Now all that is needed is for the representative of the EC and the representative of the Hungarian government to sign these papers, also in relation to the RFF .
The EU summit in Brussels was favorable from the Hungarian point of view
- the state secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spoke about this. Tamás Menczer of the government evaluated the agreements as a great success. He put it this way: they were able to protect Hungarian interests in every decision.
" We got to where we wanted to be. We can sign the agreements - at least it is not up to us in any way - and I am confident that this will happen and there will be no obstacles, neither with the recovery fund nor with the cohesion resources. And everything happens the way we believe it will happen. So this is definitely a great Hungarian success, " said the state secretary responsible for bilateral relations.
Source: Viktor Orbán's Facebook page
Speaking about the global minimum tax, Tamás Menczer added: the Hungarian government does not support a tax increase and has achieved that the domestic business tax can be included, so there will be no tax increase in Hungary.
Therefore, the Hungarian recovery plan was approved at the summit, so the risk of loss of funds has been averted, meaning that EU funds can arrive in Hungary.
A decision was also made to support the European economy with concrete measures in order to preserve its competitiveness, and to coordinate energy-related actions. However, there was no compromise between the EU heads of state and government in other sanctions and energy matters, so a decision on these can only be made later.
At the same time, they accepted an 18 billion euro financial aid package to help Ukraine, and also agreed to give Bosnia and Herzegovina official candidate status.
Source: hirado.hu
Cover photo: Viktor Orbán's Facebook page
