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.
Hungarian farmers staged a demonstration against Brussels’s plans in front of the European Council’s representation in Budapest on Wednesday.
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...
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.
The 2025 budget contained EUR 199.4bn of total commitments and EUR 155.2bn of total payments.
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.
Gergely Gulyás said the government believes that the EU wants to amend the budget while it has not even implemented the current one.
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."
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”.
“Everyone has a single question in Brussels right now: where has the money gone?” the prime minister said.
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.
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.
Hungarian lawmakers approved the legislation with 170 votes in favor and no MPs present voting against.