Orbán: ‘We’ve protected Hungarians’ money’

“Everyone played their last card,” he said, adding that an agreement was struck. “I must say, common sense has prevailed.”

“We won because in hard times, during the epidemic and the economic crisis, there’s no time for ideological or political debates that hold us back from taking action,” he said.

The prime minister said that in the end, European unity had been preserved.

Orbán added, however, that proposals were still on the table that many member states like Hungary would dislike, referring to migration and anti-family measures “planned by Brussels”.

He said there would be disputes ahead, “but today we’ve definitely achieved three things.”

Orbán said Hungary had succeeded in preventing the European basic treaty from being bypassed and from forcing on Hungarians “decisions that we don’t accept”.

The prime minister added that “Hungarian money will also be protected”.

Charles Michel, President of the European Council, announced on Twitter that an agreement has been reached on the EU’s multiannual budget and recovery fund at the summit.

Novak: Hungary has won battle

Hungary has won a battle through the agreement concerning the European Union’s budget achieved on Thursday night, Katalin Novak, minister without portfolio in charge of family affairs, said in a video published on Facebook.

Novak said the agreement was “not only about finances but the present and future of Hungarian children and whether we can freely live in Europe as Hungarians”.

Novak said she believed in a Europe “where there is freedom, where member states can freely decide how they want to live, where people can think differently and were each nation can independently decide about its own present and future”.

The Hungarian government has withstood “empirial endeavours to force ideologies on Hungarians: it has rejected mass immigration and the gender ideology just as it had rejected communism”, Novak said.