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Hungary vetoes EU budget over migrants
Brussels using "financial means to blackmail countries"
18 November, 10:40
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 18 NOV - "In line with the position
communicated during the EU summit this July and in accordance
with the veto power laid out in the EU Treaties, the Hungarian
Government exercised its veto over the EU's budgetary
legislative package," the Hungarian government's International
Communications Office said in a statement today.
"In Brussels today, they only view countries which let migrants in as those governed by the rule of law. Those who protect their borders cannot qualify as countries where rule of law prevails," the statement reads. "Once this proposal gets adopted, there will be no more obstacles to tying member states' share of common funds to supporting migration and use financial means to blackmail countries which oppose migration," the Hungarian government concluded. (ANSA).
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"In Brussels today, they only view countries which let migrants in as those governed by the rule of law. Those who protect their borders cannot qualify as countries where rule of law prevails," the statement reads. "Once this proposal gets adopted, there will be no more obstacles to tying member states' share of common funds to supporting migration and use financial means to blackmail countries which oppose migration," the Hungarian government concluded. (ANSA).
