Hungary's PM on €50bn deal for Ukraine: I went to the wall for my country

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he "went to the wall" for his country before agreeing to approve a EUR50 billion macro-financial assistance package for Ukraine at a summit in Brussels on Thursday, 1 February. Source: Reuters, citing a statement from Orban, as reported by European Pravda Details: The Hungarian prime minister claimed that he had managed to avert the risk of Budapest-bound funds from the bloc's joint budget being diverted.

"If this deal had not been reached and Hungary had continued to use its right of veto, 26 member states would have agreed to send the money to Ukraine... and would have taken away the funds earmarked for Hungary and sent them to Ukraine as well - what good is that?," Orban noted.

"We are not sending weapons (to Ukraine); we get our money from Brussels, and we will contribute to civilian financing of Ukraine," the Hungarian prime minister added.

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