Hungary blocks €50bn of EU budget funds for Ukraine hours after agreement is reached on membership talks.

Hungary has blocked €50bn ($55bn; £43bn) in EU aid for Ukraine hours after agreement was reached on starting membership talks.

“Summary of the nightshift: veto for the extra money to Ukraine,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted on social media after talks in Brussels.

EU leaders said talks on aid for Ukraine would resume early next year.

Ukraine is critically dependant on EU and US funding as it continues to fight occupying Russian forces.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    485·
    11 months ago

    Either the Hungarian government isn’t representing it’s people and is instead deeply damaging their nation’s relationships and future against their will, in which case their people need to elect a better government,

    or it is representing the people, the people support Russia and hate the west, and must be expelled from the European Union, as they are a dangerous and damaging force trying to destroy it from within.