Orbán: 20% Of EU’s New 7-Year Budget Would Go To Ukraine, 10-12% Goes To Debt Repayments

Via Remix News,

The European Commission’s seven-year budget is already facing backlash, with Ursula von der Leyen’s request for €2 trillion from member states being slapped down by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other leaders.

One of the main voices against the budget is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who says it is designed to bring Ukraine into the EU as a member and hand Kyiv billions of euros.

“If we look only at financial aspects, we should see that in addition to the 20-25 percent of budget resources allocated to Ukraine, 10-12 percent of previously taken out loans go to loan repayments,” said Orbán in an interview with Kossuth Radio’s “Good Morning, Hungary” program.

Adding up money to Ukraine and debt repayments, 30 percent of the budget goes to areas that were not included in the previous seven-year budget, said the Hungarian prime minister.

“That’s why everyone in the European Union is shouting,” he added.

“The budget is a great science to understand, you have to be able to read not only what is written in it, but also what is hidden behind the lines,” Orbán said.

The Hungarian prime minister said the problem with the budget is that it does not have a clear strategic basis.

“If we do not know what it is for, then it cannot be good, because we must first answer what goals we want to achieve with it,” he said.

As far as Orbán is concerned, the main goal of the budget is to admit Ukraine into the EU.

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