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Minister Bóka: Next EU budget proposal would radically reshape spending priorities
The European Commission’s proposal for the European Union’s next long-term budget would introduce radical changes compared with the current framework.
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Bóka: Ukraine will get 366 billion euros from next seven-year EU budget
It is unprecedented that budgetary planning in the European Union should focus not on member states or European citizens but on the interests of an "external entity," János Bóka said.
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PM Orbán: Brussels must immediately withdraw its 'pro-Ukrainian' draft budget
Hungarian farmers staged a demonstration against Brussels’s plans in front of the European Council’s representation in Budapest on Wednesday.
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Hungarian farmers protest against 'drastic reduction' in agricultural support
NAK and MAGOSZ said the European Commission was preparing to rechannel support for farmers to Ukraine's accession and defense expenditures, while obstructing access to resources with "non-transparent rule of law...
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Gulyás: EU's draft budget for the next 7-year funding cycle is 'unacceptable'
The draft budget allocates 88 billion euros for Ukraine and another 190 billion for its EU accession, accounting for around a quarter of the total budget.
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State Secretary: Agreement on 2025 EU budget reached after 'intensive discussions'
The 2025 budget contained EUR 199.4bn of total commitments and EUR 155.2bn of total payments.
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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 dialogue."
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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 worrying financial irregularity”.
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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.