Foreign minister: Hungary ‘won’ in EU budget debate
Hungary has “won” the debate on the European Union’s budget as access to EU funding will not be tied to political or ideological conditions, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in a video on Wednesday.
“We have won because we fought for the national interest,” Szijjártó said, adding that otherwise “Brussels would have decided that we must accept illegal migrants or be stripped of EU monies.”
The Hungarian government has prevented that development and “will continue to do so in the future,” Szijjártó said on Facebook.
Justice Minister Judit Varga said it had been proven that “it is worth fighting for Hungary’s interests always and in every situation”.
“It has ben worth fighting so that (EU) subsidies are not tied to ideological requirements amid a pandemic,” Varga said on Facebook.
According to Varga, the agreement is in line with the EU treaties, “it respects our national identity and provides protection against political blackmail”.
“We have won! The friendship of Poland and Hungary has won!” she said.
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Source: MTI
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What nonsense. And lies.
Translation: we put our pants down for fear of losing our piece of the cake. Orban, his family and oligarch friends are richer, Hungarians are poorer.
End of the story.
Another two dumb comments by the rightly so.
Comments from the leaders from Hungary and Poland like from the mouth of great American story teller Mr. TRUMP, THE All the 25 other EU-members are demanding, that Both Hungary and Poland will follow all the the principles of Eu including take some refugees and follow the principles of executive, ruling and judging principles are separating from each other as all the civil right organations are given free hands to act I society without fearing arrests, persecution and other harmful methodsfrom ruling regime. If a country is not willing to follow there rules, funding of that country will be stopped!
@Tuomo – the proposed funding link did not have any reference to migration or migrants. The rule of law principles that the core EU are concerned about are nothing to do with migrants and migration; those are smokescreens that the Budapest regime are using to divert the real issues away from their domestic audience. The EU itself has said that it is nothing to do with migration issues and that Orbán and his henchmen should take their alleged grievances to the ECJ. The bluff has been called, the government has agreed to that. Then, we will see what false propaganda has been fed to the people of Hungary. It will be in full view of the world in media that Fidesz cannot control in the way they do at home.