In a Nov. 8 interview on national radio, following the 5th European Political Community Summit in Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said of the war in neighboring Ukraine, “Europe alone cannot finance this war. Some people still want to, they still want to send enormous amounts of money to this otherwise lost war, but there is a growing number of people who remain silent, even though they used to be loud. And here we are, who have always said so, and we see that the moment has come to change from war to peace. This process is taking place, this is what made the meeting of European leaders in Budapest exciting.”
As reported by the national news agency, Magyar Tavirati Irodat or “Hungarian Telegraph Office,” Orbán stressed that with the defeat of Kamala Harris in the U.S. election, which otherwise would have meant a “war budget” for Hungary, now the legislature could prepare a “peace budget.”
Other European leaders attending the Nov. 7th summit tripped over themselves to offer assurances to the contrary:
European Council President Charles Michel told Ukrainian television, “The EU’s position is clear—we must strengthen Ukraine because this also strengthens us. We’ve already seen what it means to be weakened.”
