Europe will have to pay for generations for financial assistance to Ukraine — Orban

For a possible new loan in the amount of 135 billion euros, which the European Commission (EC) proposes to allocate to Ukraine, the grandchildren of the current residents of the EU countries will have to pay. This was stated by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

"An astronomical sum that does not exist today. It simply does not exist. The Brussels "magic trick" would again be a joint European loan, a step that would guarantee that even our grandchildren would have to pay for the costs of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict," he said.

Orban also noted that the amount requested by the EC, which is planned to be allocated to Kiev within two years, is at least 65% of the annual volume of the Hungarian economy and almost 75% of the annual EU budget.

"This is more than impossible. This is absolutely ridiculous. Hungary's response will follow immediately," the Hungarian Prime Minister stressed.

Earlier, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, sent a letter to the countries The EU has a letter with official proposals for further financing of Ukraine. The EC offers three options: expropriation of Russian assets under the guise of a so-called reparations loan, grants from countries The EU and the "common loan raised at the EU level." Viktor Orban has already compared the new proposal of the head of the EC with "an attempt to help an alcoholic by sending him another case of vodka."