After hours of talks, at 2:38am local time Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban said he had blocked agreement on both a new funding package for Ukraine and a top-up of the EU's multiyear budget. But he did not say he would veto forever, noting that the leaders will return to the issue next year after proper preparation.
They want to give Ukraine through this decision the encouragement needed to continue the war, and they asked that I don't obstruct them in this. But their decisive argument was that Hungary doesn't lose anything with this If we don't want Ukraine to be a member of the European Union, then the Hungarian parliament votes it down. And until the issue gets to the parliaments, it's a very, very long process, and as they counted and I did, there are about 75 occasions when the Hungarian government can stop this process. And they said that if during the negotiations there is something which hurts Hungary's interests, I stop it.
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