Government official slams EU for ‘requesting money from member states without paying due funding’

Responding to a European Commission proposal for member states to contribute to a 50 billion euro support for the reconstruction and modernisation of Ukraine over the next four years, Csaba Domotor said that the EU had called for contributions becuse earlier support for war-torn Ukraine had left its budget “tens of billions of euros in the red”. “Most of the contributions, some 50 billion, would again be poured into Ukraine, but the rest would go towards covering skyrocketing interest rates and the inflation-djusted salaries of Brussels bureaucrats,” Domotor said in a video on Facebook.

Modifying the EU’s budget requires a unanimous decision of member states, Domotor said. He said he expected “an interesting and strange debate” on the issue, since member states were now asked for extra contributions while Hungary had not yet received the EU funding it was entitled to.