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Viktor Orbán on why he blocked EU aid package for Ukraine – video
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HUNGARY BLOCKS €50BN IN EU AID FOR UKRAINE HOURS AFTER MEMBERSHIP TALKS APPROVED

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Viktor Orbán says extra money to Kyiv has been vetoed with budget talks now
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels and agencies
Fri 15 Dec 2023 04.39 ESTFirst published on Thu 14 Dec 2023 22.02 EST
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Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has blocked a €50bn EU aid package for
Ukraine, hours after leaders side-stepped his opposition to agree to open talks
with Kyiv on joining the bloc.

A crunch summit in Brussels broke up close to 3am on Friday with the Hungarian
leader refusing to green light funding to help Ukraine’s government over the
next four years.



EU leaders will postpone their discussion on the budget to January, concluding
that after seven hours of wrangling they were not going to get the Hungarian
leader’s support.

“You can do whatever you can do but I don’t want to be part of it. So that was
his explanation for this,” Kaja Kallas, the Estonian prime minister, said on
Friday arriving for a second day of the European summit.



Posting on X, Orbán wrote: “Summary of the nightshift: veto for the extra money
to Ukraine.”

The block from Hungary – Russia’s closest ally in the EU – dealt a blow to Kyiv
and its backers only hours after the 26 member states faced down the Hungarian
leader and agreed to give a historic green light for the start of Ukraine’s
negotiation for EU membership.

What does Orbán’s decision on Ukraine’s EU membership mean for an enlarged bloc?
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“With 26 countries we agree. There is no agreement from Hungary at the moment,
but I am very confident for next year,” the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte,
said.

“I am confident the 26 members want this,” said Kallas. “As long as he [Orbán]
says the wrong things, but does the right things we are OK. We have been united
so far and we were able to deliver the decision on the accession talks
yesterday.”

Orbán in effect abstained from the vote on accession talks for Ukraine after
leaders said his veto would have a devastating impact on morale in Ukraine and
test the credibility of the bloc’s existence.

One source said: “He was told it would be a good time for him to go for coffee
and he left the room. But he knew a vote would be taken in his absence so in
that sense it was pre-agreed.”

While Orbán was left isolated by the other 26 EU member states earlier in the
day over Ukraine’s membership, the leaders decided that they could not repeat
the manoeuvre on financial aid to Kyiv, conscious that other countries,
including the UK, had used their vetos previously.

Orbán remained defiant on Friday morning, warning he could still block Ukraine’s
entry to the EU at some future stage in the years-long process it normally took
to join.

“If we don’t want Ukraine to be a member of the European Union, then the
Hungarian parliament votes it down. And until the issue gets to the parliaments,
it’s a very, very long process, and as they counted and I did, there are about
75 occasions when the Hungarian government can stop this process,” he said.

The Belgian prime minister, Alexander De Croo, said EU leaders hoped to return
in January with Orbán’s support. “It’s a very important message we give to the
Ukrainians in a difficult moment,” he said.

Orbán had argued that Ukraine should not get such large amounts of money from
the EU budget as it is not part of the bloc. Other leaders have assured Kyiv
they could channel aid to Ukraine outside the EU budget if Hungary maintains its
blockade.

The row over financial aid comes at a dire time for Ukraine’s president,
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as Ukraine’s counter-offensive against Russian forces has
failed to make major gains and the US president, Joe Biden, has so far been
unable to get a $60bn package for Kyiv through the US Congress.

On Friday, EU leaders will return to other matters including Gaza and sanctions
on Hamas leaders and Israeli settlers involved in violence.

Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press contributed to this report

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