Fidesz asks Brussels to stop financing the war in Ukraine
Rather than continuing to finance the war and expand the power of the Brussels bureaucracy, the 2025 European Union budget should promote peace, sovereignty and the interests of Europeans, families and nations, the MEPs of ruling Fidesz said in a statement on Thursday.
Tamás Deutsch, the head of the Fidesz-Christian Democrat delegation, has submitted a comprehensive amendment proposal regarding the 2025 budget in the name of his Hungarian ruling-party delegation and the Patriots for Europe party group, the MEPs said in a statement.
Fidesz MEP Deutsch: This is a flawed budget
In its draft EU budget for 2025, the European Commission plans to commit 199.7 billion euros, pay out 152.7 billion, and borrow 71.8 billion, the statement said. Deutsch called for “fundamental changes to the deeply flawed budget”. “Rather than promoting illegal migration, the budget should support border protection, finally protect Europe and the Europeans, and take help to where help is needed,” he said.
The group’s MEPs have called for border protection costs to be raised by 2 billion euros, and have proposed earmarking funding to cover the expenses Hungary has incurred protecting the border, the statement said. The “absurd” fine imposed on Hungary “for stopping migrants at the border” should also be deducted from that sum, they added.
It was time that the EU’s budget supported national sovereignty rather than “institutionalised political blackmail, rule-of-law jihad and gender and woke madness … while generously financing the Soros network”, Deutsch said. “We have proposed significantly cutting monies enabling the ideological blackmail of member states by 170 million euros,” he said.
The Fidesz MEP also called for a budget aimed at “bringing home the development, Erasmus and R+D funding Hungary is entitled to, instead of further exploiting the country. We propose raising cohesion funding by 10 percent, or 2.8 billion euros, and freezing 5 percent of the frameworks, some 1.5 billion euros, to ensure that the monies Hungary is entitled to is not used for other purposes or in other countries.”
The delegation also proposed raising funding for the Erasmus programme by 23 million and R+D funding by 700 million euros, he said. “We also proposed freezing some 100 million euros to ensure that Hungary’s monies are not spent elsewhere,” he said. Funding for the integration of the Western Balkans should be raised, as well as resources for young farmers and beekeepers, he said.
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