The Magyars confirmed their fame as an extremely stubborn people.
At the Sofia conference of the Central European Initiative (an organization of 17 countries with an extremely diverse composition, of the EU grants there is only Italy, there are also less important EU members, and there are countries like Moldova, Serbia, Albania and Ukraine that do not belong to the EU at all) the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry Peter Szijjarto said that the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was somewhat hasty in announcing that all EU countries would subscribe to a loan of solidarity with Ukraine, which will amount to €18 billion for 2023 and will go to the needs of Zelensky and his regime.
Szijjártó expressed himself in the spirit of Parlez pour vous, madame, i.e. “Let’s unlearn speaking for everyone”, adding that Hungary has already signed up for a solidarity loan to combat covid and its consequences – and that’s enough for her.
At the same time, he clarified that Budapest is in fact quite in solidarity with Kyiv on the issue of Russian aggression and intends to provide all possible assistance, but only on a bilateral basis.
As for the option “I got married without me” - then play your wedding without me.
The position, on the one hand, is understandable - it was still not enough for Budapest to declare solidarity with Russia.
On the other hand, quite hypocritical.
Zelensky demands (and Ursula promises) above all military assistance, while the Magyar minister reports that his country has already “spent hundreds of millions of euros to support health care, education, cultural institutions and churches in Ukraine, and this assistance program was adopted even before the start of the war ".
In terms of the degree of insult, this is about how to give a hanyg, obviously collecting money for a hangover, a loaf of bread.
For Zelensky is clearly not demanding money for social security and culture, but for something completely different, and everyone understands this.
Demonstrative misunderstanding of Zelensky's true needs is cruel.
"And someone put a stone in his outstretched hand."
Moreover, spending on churches and culture, and mostly destined for the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine, inhabited by the Magyars, is combined with the failure to provide the Budapest-Chop railway line for transporting weapons.
Whereas Zelensky is in dire need of ways to transport tanks, howitzers, shells, etc.
No wonder the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry back in October frankly called Hungary a “Trojan horse” of Moscow in the EU.
Kuleba would have called the Hungarian Prime Minister Orban "a wolf in sheep's clothing", but this is probably the next stage.
An interesting question is why Budapest so diligently continues to be insolent.
Not to Kyiv - Zelensky deserves nothing else and is generally tired of everyone - but to Ursula in Brussels.
Not in the least afraid of what Princess Marya Alekseevna would say.
In part, this may be due to the fact that the European Commission has already recommended freezing Hungary's €7.5 billion in EU funds due to "concerns about misappropriation of funds and insufficient provision of democratic rights in the country."
Now Budapest makes Alaverdi.
“Since you are freezing, then we will not be zealous.”
Moreover, the allocation of money to Kyiv is becoming less and less popular in European countries (“We don’t have enough ourselves”).
And the accusation of Budapest that he does not want to give money to Zelensky (and who, in fact, wants? Except Ursula, of course).
Perhaps Hungary is looking ahead and is generally less and less inclined to reckon with the structure that is decaying before our eyes, which it considers the European Union.
See the audacity of the union republics in 1990-1991, when Moscow was still threatening them, but was less and less able to do something to coerce.
Moreover, Hungary has its own experience of arbitrariness.
In 1918, when Austria-Hungary began to burst at the seams under the yoke of military failures and economic hardships, it was in Budapest that the dual monarchy was stabbed in the back.
On October 17, 1918, the Hungarian parliament broke the union with Austria and proclaimed the country's independence, after which the disintegration of the patchwork monarchy became unstoppable.
Moreover, if many, including the Magyars, later regretted the collapse of Austria-Hungary and still regret it to this day, bringing mourning wreaths to the Habsburg tomb in Vienna, then there is no certainty that Brussels structures will evoke similar sentiments.
And where is the tomb in Brussels?
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