Hungary blocks €50bn of EU budget funds for Ukraine hours after agreement is reached on membership talks.

Hungary has blocked €50bn ($55bn; £43bn) in EU aid for Ukraine hours after agreement was reached on starting membership talks.

“Summary of the nightshift: veto for the extra money to Ukraine,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted on social media after talks in Brussels.

EU leaders said talks on aid for Ukraine would resume early next year.

Ukraine is critically dependant on EU and US funding as it continues to fight occupying Russian forces.

  • nickAEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    You need everyone else in the EU to agree to remove them. Poland and Hungary sort of protect each other from EU consequences.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Dream come true, hopefully they roll back all their bullshit right wing policies now.

        • sic_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          They are certainly trying but PISs did a ton of damage to the democratic systems and also installed swathes of people in key positions that share their views.