Saturday 24th July 2021
Aid funds blocked
Orban only wants EU corona money under certain conditions
With a historic billion-euro program, the EU wants to help its members get back on their feet in the corona pandemic. In the case of Hungary, however, the EU is still holding back the money. Now Prime Minister Orban is demanding that there be no demands from Brussels. Otherwise he doesn’t want the money.
Hungary does not want to accept any funds from the EU from the Corona reconstruction fund, should Brussels make this dependent on the abolition of the law restricting information on homosexual and transsexuality. This is what Hungary’s right-wing national Prime Minister Viktor Orban decreed in an ordinance. The EU Commission has been examining legal steps against the law for weeks because it is directed against non-heterosexual people.
The EU Commission is delaying approval for the Hungarian Corona reconstruction plan “because of its political rejection of national legislation on the protection of children,” according to Orban’s regulation. In this context, Hungary will only accept an agreement in which “the European Commission does not impose any condition on Hungary that does not apply to other Member States”. That
Hungarian Child Protection Act has been criticized for forbidding children from accessing information about non-heterosexual lifestyles. Orban is also planning a referendum on this. The EU Commission has not yet approved the Hungarian plan for the use of corona funds – but this also applies to other EU countries. However, the EU Commission has not yet made an explicit connection to the controversial Hungarian law.
Several national plans for the so-called development and resilience facility of the EU have already been approved, including the German one. According to current calculations, around 7.2 billion euros are earmarked for Hungary.
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