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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary will not support a European Union plan to provide Ukraine with billions in budget assistance next year, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday, digging in on his country's blocking of a major aid package the EU unveiled last week.and supports the Ukrainian people, he is not willing to put Ukraine’s interests before those of his own country.
As an alternative to the EU aid plan, Orban recommended that the EU’s 27 members determine how much they are willing to provide to Ukraine and distribute the sum in a “proportional and fair way” among themselves without jointly taking out loans to make the payments. But some in the EU see the moves as a sign that Budapest is exerting leverage in an attempt to force the bloc to releaseand other money that was held up over concerns that Orban has curtailed democratic norms and violated rule-of-law standards.
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