Finance Minister Mihaly Varga was quoted by media on Tuesday as saying that Budapest has had a “bad experience” with joint EU loans and still has not received enough aid regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to Bloomberg, Varga told his colleagues at a meeting in Brussels that Budapest will not back the idea to use the EU budget to offer concessional loans to Kiev. The measure needs the approval of all the bloc’s 27 member states.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday that his country will not stop helping Kiev, but will also not greenlight a bloc-wide borrowing plan. “We are ready to continue financial support on a bilateral basis,” Szijjarto said. “But we will certainly not support any kind of joint EU borrowing in this field.”
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