The European Union is weakening itself

By delaying EU funds to Poland and Hungary, the European Commission is essentially going against the interests of Europe. After all, significant sums of money could be dedicated to strengthening energy independence and supply security with the recovery funds.

It was no coincidence that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the German-language newspaper, Budapester Zeitung, that the EU institutions are “used as weapons” by the government’s political opponents and that “they’re punishing us and openly blackmailing us with EU money.” He also noted that the government does not want to argue but rather cooperate. That is why our country will implement the 17 points requested by the European Commission. However, according to Viktor Orbán, Brussels will probably come up with even more requests afterwards. 

At the same time, the contracts should be able to go forward at the end of the year as there will be no reason to refuse payments once the conditions are met. The Prime Minister emphasized though: “Hungary cannot be forced into a corner financially.” 

The latter is shown by the fact that the Hungarian government has already started to pre-finance the implementation of the objectives from domestic sources in several areas. Significant funds have been dedicated to providing the population with solar panels, just as the development of the electricity network starts at around 103 billion forints (~ 2.5 million euro). This is to contribute to bringing in as many renewable energy sources to the network as possible.   

(Photo: Kurucz Árpád)