Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatens to veto the EU summit in Grenada. (image alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS / Markus Schreiber)
Additional weapons deliveries would prolong the killing, Orbán argued. His country will therefore not agree, under any circumstances, to the proposed aid payments of up to 70 billion euros over the next four years.
He also criticized the European Union’s migration policy. On Wednesday, EU states approved a new crisis regulation with a qualified majority against the votes of Hungary and Poland. Orban described the agreement as not comprehensive enough and as a violation of his country. Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki called the agreement a “dictum from Brussels and Berlin”. According to several diplomats, both countries threatened not to sign the summit’s final declaration.
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