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Orbán calls repayment ‘absurd’ as EU court opinion questions EUR 10 billion paid to Hungary
The Advocate General of the EU’s top court has said the European Commission made a mistake when it lifted the freeze on EUR 10.2 billion in cohesion funding for Hungary at the end of 2023.
According to Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta, Hungary had not fully met the rule-of-law conditions attached to the release of the money at the time, in particular, reforms related to strengthening judicial independence.
The money has been paid, but the court may still intervene
The EUR 10.2 billion in question is part of Hungary’s cohesion funding, one of the EU’s main development instruments. These funds are typically used to finance infrastructure and regional projects, such as transport, utilities, urban development, energy efficiency upgrades and other public investments.
The money was transferred in December 2023, after the Commission decided to lift the earlier freeze. However, if the court later annuls that decision, it could create a legal situation in which the basis for the payment effectively disappears retroactively, raising the possibility that the funds could be reclaimed.
As reported by the Hungarian outlet Világgazdaság, Orbán Balázs, the Prime Minister’s political director, said the Advocate General’s opinion should not be seen purely as a legal matter but as a political message.
In his view, Hungary has once again become a target because it has “stepped out of the European elite’s script”, and when a member state does not align with the direction expected in Brussels, institutional and legal mechanisms are quickly set in motion.
Orbán Viktor called the idea of repayment “absurd”
The case reached the Court of Justice after the European Parliament filed a lawsuit against the European Commission in 2024. MEPs argue that the Commission concluded too early that Hungary had met the conditions, thereby violating the rules of the EU’s rule-of-law conditionality mechanism.
What kind of kangaroo-court is this?
Will they retroactively take all the funds Hungary ever received, just to break our will to defy them? Out of funds we paid into?
It is clear, that they are our enemy. We ned to respond in kind:
1,First suspend any and all money flows to the EU.
2,Then suspend all EU regulation.
3,Then ignore all letters, notices, and whatever paper the bureaucrats send, and publicly state, that we just wipe our asses with it.
4,Then ban all EU officials from entering Hungary. If they dare, confiscate all their possessions, then throw them out.
That is how you deal with such assholes: Show them, that they are nothing.
Show them, that they can go to their “puppet court for political oppression”, and all they get in return is a “fuck you”.
That’s the only way.
Yes, Dear Márk, they want to break y’all’s will.
The biggest reason why I decided to learn your language, as a prelude to having a home there, was because my assessment of your people was that they had suffered less damage than other European tribes, and therefore more closely resembled who y’all were, centuries ago.
What is this character trait of y’all’s that I identified in y’all’s history that most impressed me?
Fight … a willingness to fight, and to never give up – no matter what the odds.
Though I see this quality also in abundance in Poland, Russian,Serbia, and Slovakia, to a high degree, I believe that not only do y’all have a clearly pronounced warrior history, y’all have a superior political leadership to everyone in Europe, other than Russia.
Many people, looking upon the current Hungary, make the mistake of seeing things in a vacuum. I do not. I see it as no accident that Orbán Viktor is in chargeé that he girds Hungary’s power, with his diplomacy, and that he is not afraid to throw around Hungary’s surprising weight.
No accident here – it’s an outgrowth of the collective temperment of The Hungarian Tribe – this in spite of a concerted attempt to ‘educate’ the Hungarian populace out of their collective personality.
It has not worked, and the comment you give above, is what I regard as the reliable Eternal Hungarian Soul.
My people have been destroyed, because, in the end, all our bravery ran out and our determination waned.
Hungary is incredibly tenacious – beyond any other Western nation, other than Russia.
You will never give up.
I identify with that.
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Fidesz only brings misery and loss of funds to Hungary. Why on Earth would anyone want them to remain in power? Nothing good is coming for Hungary with them in office.
@Larry those who don’t realize that this is a setup are making a complete fool of themselves! Two months before the elections, the Advocate General concludes that Hungary had wrongly received this money due to an incorrect decision by the European Commission! It might be interesting to mention which faction(s) of the European Parliament are behind this vaudeville? That the same left-wing faction meanwhile has no objection to giving Ukraine more than 170 billion while corruption is rampant! Meanwhile, the Advocate General looked the other way! That 90 billion euros of Russian money parked in Belgium at Euroclear serves as collateral for a loan is no problem at all for the same Advocate General?It is written in the stars that Ukraine will never repay this money and the Member States will have to pay for it! The anti-Orban factions together with the Commission headed by a Commission President who strings together one lie after another put on a tasteless piece of theatre! By the way, when are the Belgian judicial authorities going to report on the progress of their investigation into the Qatargate corruption case?