Orbán to EU: Where is the money?
Hungary wants to know who is responsible for the European Union having been “pushed to the brink of bankruptcy”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Brussels on Thursday.
“Everyone has a single question in Brussels right now: where has the money gone?” Orbán said in a video on Facebook ahead of a summit of EU leaders.
He said the European Commission had proposed an amendment to the EU budget, “and is requesting hundreds of billions more in contributions from member states”.
The prime minister said this raised the question of “how is it that the European Union could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy”.
“Where has the money gone?” – Orbán asks in his Facebook post:
Detailing the EC’s amendment proposal, Orbán noted that member states were being asked to contribute another EUR 50 billion to the budget “so that they can give it to Ukraine even though they can’t account for the money we’ve already contributed”.
“They want a lot of money from member states so that they can cover the interests on earlier EU loans,” the prime minister said. “These are the loans from which Poland and Hungary have yet to receive a single penny.”
Orbán said it was “unserious” of the EU to “want more money for migration, though not for border protection, but to bring migrants in”.
“And of course, they haven’t forgotten about themselves, either,” he said. “They’re asking for billions of euros to raise the salaries of the Brussels bureaucrats.”
Hungary’s position is clear, Orbán said. “First and foremost we want to know what all that money we have contributed so far has been spent on,” he said. “And then we want an answer to the question of who is responsible for the European Union being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy.”
It is, or should be, common knowledge that the E.U. is breathtakingly corrupt and unaccountable. There’s a reason its institutions failed every single financial audit for more than 20 years. That is shocking enough but the fact that all the money that has been effectively embezzled is OUR (the taxpayers’) money makes it all truly SCANDALOUS! Time to tear the whole thing down and try again.
“The Pot calling the Kettle Black” – this psychological projection by Orban, knowing that the country, for 14 years he has held the position as its Prime Minister – Hungary, is on the “cusp” of Insolvency.
Hungary, through the Orban “paths” he has ventured on, his ideas and philosophies, muchly centering on the ERADICATION of Democracy in Hungary, to continue, and he won’t change his spots – bombard at any given time – blame in ALL sectors of the functionality – its purpose of the European Union, is WRONGFUL.
Hungary under Orban – used and abused the European Union in its funding arrangements, that through the Court of Justice – of the European Union have ruled – the acts of criminality undertaken by the Orban – the Government of Hungary, in there procedures and distribution of Funding.
Blame – rests totally on the shoulders of the Hungarian Prime Minister – Victor Orban, for the present European Union/Hungary – cold near freezing relationship.
Orban his continuation of aggressive attacks on the European Union, which in theory – is an attack on the hated or disliked word in the rhetoric of Orban – that word being DEMOCRACY, just adds to the growing ugliness of his CV in Brussels, that continues to place Hungary, at the near bottom of the list, in the role that the “core” functionality or purpose – that the European Union plays to its membership country’s and DEMOCRACY.
The money is in Victor’s friend’s pockets. Mystery solved.
Where is the money Hungary got from the EU over the past 15 years….Meszaros got most of it and transferred a huge chunk back to the Viktator. Apparently the most expensive roads in the world have been built in Hungary, 10 times more expensive then German roads but falls apart after 3 years.
Yes, Orban, where is the money? Where is all of the VAT money? All of the taxes we paid? Varga is asking for more democratic control on the EU institutions. We also want that for your government. More control and less corruption.
Imagine – had the money received from the European Union – been spent used Efficiently – not abused, squandered on wants such as Football Stadiums and “other” – over the urgent NEEDS of Citizens, like up-grades of Hospitals, Schools & Educators just (2) two examples of many you can list, – that have been ABUSED by Orban and his Government, through wrongful & criminal acts – the mis-placement – the mis-use of European Union funding, that life for US – the citizens of Hungary, would have been of greater pleasure, than the DARKNESS – the Growing Debt as a country – through Victor Orban – that we descend.
Victor Orban – its ALL his OWNERSHIP the cataclysmic Mess – the on-going DESTRUCTION, we are witnessing in Hungary, and it will WORSEN.
BOZGOR