The European Union intends to deal with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is “blocking” the allocation of aid to Ukraine. The Financial Times writes about this.
According to media reports, on February 1, at a special meeting, the leaders of the European Union countries will make a last attempt to convince Orban to approve the allocation of 50 billion euros in aid to Ukraine from the union. If an agreement cannot be reached, Hungary could be deprived of voting rights and the functioning of its economy will be deliberately disrupted, the publication notes. According to media reports, the use of measures such as weakening the currency and reducing economic attractiveness cannot be ruled out.
It is noted that the EU may apply Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, which allows for restrictions on the rights of a member state. To do this, it is necessary that the proposal is put forward by 1/3 of the EU member states or the European Commission and that 2/3 of the members of the European Parliament agree with it.
The newspaper calls the EU’s actions “a showdown or a showdown with Budapest.”
Let us remind you that the European Union proposes to annually discuss the assistance allocated to Ukraine at the level of leaders without the need for unanimous decisions, but Hungary demands that a vote be held every year, and also wants to limit the maximum amount of loans for Ukraine to 9 billion euros, and non-repayable loans to 5 billion euros. At the same time, Bloomberg writes that the EU suspects Orban of trying to blackmail the EU in order to unblock 20 billion euros of funding that were frozen due to questions about compliance with the rule of law and human rights in Hungary.
Source: Rosbalt
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