Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban distanced himself from his nationalist Hungarian namesake and counterpart Viktor Orban on Thursday after Hungary and Poland vetoed the EU budget and coronavirus rescue plan.
"Blocking the adoption of a decision on the recovery plan negatively affects the whole EU, including the citizens of Hungary and Poland," Orban told AFP in an exclusive interview when asked whether he had a message for Hungary's Orban.
Hungary and Poland, both accused by Brussels of rolling back democratic freedoms, are opposed to the EU's plans to tie funding to criteria on rule of law.
On Monday, the two countries blocked EU's long-term budget and coronavirus rescue -- a 1.8 trillion euro ($2.1 trillion) package -- and plunged the bloc into political crisis.
"It's in everyone's interest, including every Hungarian citizen, that the recovery plan is adopted as soon as possible, because every Hungarian will benefit, along with every citizen of other countries," Orban said.
Since joining the EU in 2007, Romania has received 56 billion euros in cohesion funds.
Pledging to improve the use of such funds, Orban indicated that billions of euros would be devoted in coming years to the construction of three regional hospitals, crucial for a country with dilapidated infrastructure and which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Although confident that "a deal will ultimately be reached", Orban rejected the arguments of his counterparts in Budapest and Warsaw, stressing that "respect for rule of law standards is a guarantee for every taxpayer that money will be spent correctly, in the public interest."
Your history is being raped by mongols, turks, nazis and soviets. You are the same as mutts
Blake Brown
> Have a structures that allows you to disagree via veto > Use veto > Everyone is shocked (not so quiet ramblings regarding something about nazis are coming from the people that originally implemented the veto instrument for this exact situation) they really thought nobody would have balls to use it as long as they are paid handsomely well.. suprise motherfucker
Isaiah Ramirez
Romania is rightfully Indian clay.
Matthew Sanders
>t. Kovács István, self-hating r/hungary frequenter
Anthony Cox
years of history . but yea a slanty eyed brainwashed slav tells me we have no history here you go bozgor a better representation of your heroes
Countries of Eastern Europe are generally bootlickers of Germany, except Poorland and now Hungary.
Brandon Morris
Hungary and poland based. But what did you expect from roma the germ lovers? Their entire history (all 50years) is full of degeneracy and betrayal against others!
John Howard
Haha look at these bozgors lmao! Browner then literal niggers
youtube.com/watch?v=2iUGfURqyhs&ab_channel=ViperProduction here you go toilet man your favorite gypsy singer now clean those british toilets until they sparkle my bozgor friend i am sorry i tried finding direct flights from budapest to Ulaanbaatar (that's the capital of mongolia , your ancestors country ) but unfortunately i have found not so many , maybe you can go back the same way you came here on horseback
