Hungarian foreign minister: Reducing EU funds over migration disputes ‘unacceptable’
Budapest, December 17 (MTI) – Reducing European Union funds for Hungary as an act of revenge for disputes over the migrant crisis would be “unacceptable”, Hungary’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
Peter Szijjarto responded to an interview given by Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann to German daily Die Welt in which he said that EU member states who receive more money from the central budget than they contribute “should not simply look away” when it comes to the redistribution of migrants across the bloc. “Solidarity is not a one-way street,” the chancellor said.
Faymann said member states who refuse to take in refugees “put the entire EU budget in question” and make it more difficult for net contributors, including Austria, to continue paying the amount they pay.
The chancellor said that when the EU budget is reviewed next year, “we will look exactly at which countries have behaved particularly disruptively in the refugee issue.”
Szijjarto said: “If there is a stance that goes against common European values and rules then this is it.” The minister said Faymann “misunderstands” the function of EU funds. The funds are not “handouts or humanitarian aid” but money to which member states, including central European ones, are entitled, he said.
The minister said western European nations made “huge profits” on Hungary’s opening up its market to the west, meaning that older EU member states have just as much to gain from central European countries’ EU membership as the central European countries themselves.
Photo: MTI
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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Perhaps Herr Faymann, Frau Merkel & other mental-retards [who want to ‘open’ Europe to millions of (Muslim) migrants] might be VERY pleased if the PINK POODLES in Brussels withhold E.U. funds from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic for REFUSING to have their countries / cultures / population totally ruined / overrun by HORDES of these so-called ‘refugees’.
On the other hand, those same countries – IF continually ‘pushed around’ by certain factions within the E.U. – might eventually EXPAND the VISEGRAD 4 into a competing (and definitely MUCH more successful) economic block than the E.U.
Should that ever eventuate, I doubt very much that Austria, France, Germany or other E.U. nations will have ANY say in how the V4 AREA is run.
Be careful, Herr Faymann, in what you say.
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