Hungary has openly rejected a proposed EU-backed plan to channel up to $800 billion to Ukraine over the next decade. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto accused Brussels of trying to force member states to bankroll Kyiv, warning that not a single forint of Hungarian public money will be sent to Ukraine. His comments come as the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pushed ahead with the much-maligned – and seemingly abandoned ‘reparations loan’ for Kyiv and kept the option of using frozen Russian assets on the table. With unanimity required for major EU funding decisions, the dispute exposes deep divisions inside the bloc over how far Europe should go in financing Ukraine’s war effort and postwar recovery.
