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Budapest Mayor Karácsony: Government would be ‘rejecting helping hand’ by vetoing EU budget
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The Hungarian government would be “rejecting a helping hand” in the middle of the coronavirus crisis if it vetoed the European Union’s next multi-year budget and post-pandemic recovery package, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on Tuesday.
Addressing an online press conference after a board meeting of the alliance of local governments MOSZ, Karácsony, a co-chair of the alliance, said Hungary’s local governments backed and were ready to implement the new round of virus-related restrictions announced by the government on Monday.
He added, at the same time, that the measures came at a cost to budgets and society that “needs to be paid together”.
“The more restrictions that are implemented, the more we have to be prepared for an economic slowdown that will threaten jobs,” Karácsony said.
“That’s why the government would be rejecting a helping hand in this crisis by . vetoing the European Union budget with reference to the plan to tie the distribution of funds to rule of law criteria,” he said.
Karácsony said this was “irresponsible” on the part of the government and called on Hungary’s leaders to do everything they can to ensure that the country and its localities have access to EU monies as quickly as possible.
Uberführer Karacsony’s description of the E.U. as being a ‘helping hand in times of need’ is RIDICULOUS.
In reality, any offers of ‘aid’ from the E.U. are just examples of how this organisation is continually trying to ‘jerk-off’ independent sovereign nations, especially those which do not adhere to its left-wing view of the world.