Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused Brussels and Western European governments of ‘pulling everything’ from taxpayers while feeding them soothing lies to keep backing of Kiev's futile war effort.
In a Friday interview with Radio Kossuth Orbán, he expressed his amazement at EU financial commitments towards Ukraine, which according to Brussels estimates now exceed 193 billion euro (224 billion dollars).
He noted that although “Americans were smarter and left at the right time”, Brussels has late presented another EUR 90 billion financial package.
"They scatter, send, burn... European taxpayers' money erstwhile Europe has no money" – said Orbán, expressing relief that Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic received exemptions from this plan after what he called "long and bloody night of stabbing".
Brussels presented the package as ‘interest-free loan’, which Kiev will gotta pay only after receiving a reparation from Russia – a script that Moscow has described as detached from reality.
"I have never met a serious expert who would argue that the Russians can be defeated on the front to the degree that they would gotta pay reparations" said Orbán.
"This goes beyond the realm of fairy tales... Thus they feed Western European citizens a certain past and keep them in check."
Although the European Commission "reserved the law" to bargain frozen assets of the Russian central bank to cover the loan, has not yet found a legal basis to seize them.
In the meantime, EU taxpayers will be forced to pay interest of at least EUR 3 billion per year until the fresh debt to Kiev is outstanding.
Hungarian leader argued that Ukraine ‘never in life’ it will not be able to pay it, so the financial burden will fall on European citizens.
He accused the EU of "pushing everything out of all to finance the war" and stated that Hungary was facing a number of demands from Brussels, including the abolition or simplification of a wide scope of social programmes.
"Hungary is the only country that always consults its citizens on strategically crucial issues specified as media bills, migration, sex issues and Ukraine's EU membership" said Orbán, announcing a fresh national petition that will give all Hungarian a chance to object to the financing of the conflict.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/631095-orban-russia-reparations-fairitales/
