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Fidesz MEPs back revision of the EU’s seven-year budget
The European Parliament’s plenary session has voted in favor of a mid-term revision of the bloc’s 2021-2027 budget, including 50 billion euros in long-term aid for Ukraine.
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Gulyás: Hungary does not support amendment of EU's budget or accession talks with Ukraine
Gergely Gulyás said the government believes that the EU wants to amend the budget while it has not even implemented the current one.
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Minister Varga urges international constitutional dialogue in EU
The justice minister said the debate on the rule of law can only progress if the "politically motivated discourse" in the European Union is replaced by an "unbiased, international constitutional...
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Fidesz: EC cannot account for exactly how much it has spent on Ukraine
In a letter to Monika Hohlmeier, Tamás Deutsch and Andor Deli said the ongoing mid-term review of the EU’s 2021-2027 financial framework “has highlighted a serious suspicion of a very...
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PM Orbán: Hungary wants to know who is responsible for the EU being pushed to brink of bankruptcy
“Everyone has a single question in Brussels right now: where has the money gone?” the prime minister said.
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State Secretary: EU budget proposal would put Hungary at a greater disadvantage than it is already
Zoltán Kovács said Hungary had been on the receiving end of “injustice for eleven years now” and had been singled out on no objective grounds.
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Lawmakers pass amendment to headline figures of 2023 budget
Central subsystem spending will amount to 39,776 billion forints (EUR 103.1bn) as against income of 36,375 billion, with a resulting deficit of 3,400 billion forints, larger than the target of 2,352 billion forints in the original budget.
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Parliament approves EU budget framework and post-pandemic recovery package
Hungarian lawmakers approved the legislation with 170 votes in favor and no MPs present voting against.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s address to the Hungarian parliament before the start of daily business
14 December 2020, Budapest
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PM Orbán: Hungary’s sovereignty and money has been protected
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said "common sense won the day" in the course of the European Council summit last week.
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PM Orbán: Common sense prevailed, we defended Hungary's sovereignty and the money due to Hungarians
“At last week's summit of the European Council, common sense prevailed; we defended Hungary's sovereignty and Hungarian money,” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in his speech in Parliament today.
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Justice Minister: EU deal is a victory for common sense
Justice Minister Judit Varga said Thursday’s agreement concerning the European Union’s next budget and coronavirus recovery fund has in the first place been a victory for common sense.
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PM Orbán: Europe has not surrendered to Soros
PM Orbán said the European Union has maintained its unity and won; George Soros lost and it would be time for Europeans to “finally send him home to America”.