By KYIV. Dec 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the country would continue to oppose the EU plan to provide Ukraine with a EUR 18 billion aid package in 2023, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
"The question is how to help Ukraine. One proposal says that we should use the budgets of the EU member states to take out new loans together and use that money to give to Ukraine. We are not in favor of this because we do not want the European Union to become a community of indebted states instead of a community of cooperating member states," Orban said.
Orban proposed that each of the EU’s 27 member states draw from its own budget to provide assistance to Ukraine through bilateral agreements.
Earlier it was reported that the Hungarian government decided to allocate EUR 187 million to participate in financial assistance to Ukraine. The political director of the Prime Minister’s Office, Balázs Orban, indicated that these funds would still be allocated from the national budget, not as part of a single EU plan for a new aid package to Ukraine.
