Orbán cabinet: Payment of EU funds must not be linked to conditions at time of pandemic

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Hungary’s position in debates on the EU’s next budget framework and post-pandemic recovery package is clear: given the current pandemic situation, the payment of EU funds must not be linked to conditions and the money must immediately be paid to every member state, mostly to those in need, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’ Office, told MTI on Tuesday.

He said the time was not right for “unnecessary debates on immigration and gender issues” but aid must be granted to countries in need.

Gulyás said Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony was “trying to weaken Hungary’s position” in the debates on the next EU budget and the recovery package.

“Party disputes are an essential part of a democracy, but it is an unprecedented move from the mayor of Budapest that he is seeking to weaken Hungary’s position [in the talks with Brussels] and while we [the government] are fighting in Brussels representing European and Hungarian interests, we are getting stabbed in the back by the mayor,”

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  1. Translation from Fidesz to English: ” we, Fidesz gang, will not stop passing tens of illiberal bills because of the pandemic, on the contrary we are passing even more than usual ( and almost none of them related to the pandemic ) precisely using this situation of emergency as a good pretext for the strenghtening of our dictatorship. You, bloody EU, you Brussels mafia that we despise and daily insult on our media, must shut up and keep feeding us regularly, regardless of the evil we are doing.”
    Worst regards,
    Goulash with ears and his loyal ” good Christian” heterosexual mandarines.

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