Hungary open to using EU budget for Ukraine aid package, Orban's adviser says


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  • Monday, 29 Jan 2024

FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary signalled its readiness on Monday for a compromise allowing a proposed European Union aid package for Ukraine to be financed from the bloc's budget ahead of an emergency summit on Thursday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been a vocal critic of the EU's financial and military support for Kyiv and maintained close ties with the Kremlin since Russia's invasion of neighbouring in Ukraine in February 2022.

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