On Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, and the Prime Ministers of Croatia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Sweden. At the meeting, Viktor Orbán rejected the EU budget proposal that promotes migration and the increase of bureaucracy in Brussels, Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister's press chief, informed MTI.
Viktor Orbán explained:
the European Commission's EU budget amendment proposal in its current form is frivolous and unfit for debate.
According to the statement issued after the video conference, Brussels would provide a total of 50 billion euros in aid to Ukraine, so that the use of the EU funds sent to the country since the beginning of the war is still unclear.
Brussels is demanding new resources from member states to cover the deficit in the EU budget due to rising interest rates,
while it continues to withhold the money owed to Hungary and Poland from the previous joint borrowing.
Another problem is that
the Commission's budget proposal would further bloat the Brussels bureaucracy.
According to the Hungarian government's position, instead of stopping illegal immigration, Brussels
wants to spend billions more to support the flow of illegal migrants to Europe.
Viktor Orbán repeated: the solution to illegal migration would be that if someone submits an application for entry into the territory of the Union, then until his application has been judged, that person must remain outside the European borders.
MTI
Front page photo: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán holds a video conference with Charles Michel, President of the European Council, as well as the Prime Ministers of Croatia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Sweden (Photo: MTI/Minister's Press Office/Zoltán Fischer)
