Viktor Orban: Hungary will not accept the new EU budget as a basis for negotiations, because of its focus on war with Russia

13:10 28.07.2025 •

Europe has clearly entered an arms race, and the longer there is no peace, the greater the risk of a global conflict. NATO countries are mining borders and building fences with barbed wire against an imaginary "threat from the East." It looks like many in the West are already perceiving the myth of the "Russian threat" as reality. Not everyone, though.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that his government will not agree with the EU Budget Project for 2028-2034 drawn up by the European Commission and will not accept it as a basis for negotiations. He described it as a military document aimed at supporting Ukraine and continuing the armed conflict with Russia. "If you examine it, you will see that it is a military budget. Everything in it is drawn up in accordance with the logic of war. Twenty percent of these funds are earmarked for Ukraine, while the rest will not be used to develop agriculture or support farmers, but rather to prepare for war," Orban noted when speaking at the Free University and summer student camp in the Romanian resort town of Baile Tusnad in Transylvania.

In Moscow, the head of the Federation Council’s Committee on Information Policy and Interaction with the Media, Alexei Pushkov, believes that the EU’s ultimate goal is to achieve the disintegration of Russia. Moreover, Brussels makes no secret of its intention to make sure that Russia shares the fate of the USSR. The minimum goal is to marginalize Russia in Europe and build a new "iron curtain,” pushing Russia to the political and economic sidelines of the continent. The European countries and their citizens will lose a lot from this, of course,  but the current Euro-elites will only benefit, strengthening their grip on power. Pushkov believes that hostility towards Russia should become the main factor holding the European Union together, and this is one of the goals Brussels is trying to achieve.

 

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