Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has indicated that some of the EU funds that Brussels is supposed to allocate to Budapest may already have been transferred to Kiev.
The European Union froze over €6 billion designated for Hungary last September due to alleged political concerns. However, Hungarian PM Orban insists that Hungary has met all the EU's requirements and that the funds were rather used to back the Kiev regime.
"It is possible that some of it [the money] is already in Ukraine. If there is no money to give Ukraine the sums promised before, and we promise to give new sums, and there are people who haven't received the money, it is reasonable to assume that this money is already gone. We don't know for sure because Brussels is not clear about it," Orban said on a Hungarian radio station.
He added that Brussels owes Hungary "more than three billion euros" because Budapest "paid everything that had to be paid."
"In terms of the Hungarian budget, this is a significant amount," the prime minister stressed.
Earlier, Gergely Gulyas, the current head of the prime minister's office, said that Ukraine would not receive any EU budget funds until Hungary gets its rightful share, as unanimous support is necessary to adjust the EU budget.
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