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Scholz Says EU Should Change Budget Priorities to Combine Aid to Ukraine With Other Tasks

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BERLIN (Sputnik) - The European Union should change priorities in the budget to be able to combine assistance to Ukraine with the implementation of other tasks, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday.
Earlier this month, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has proposed topping up the 2024-2027 EU budget with an additional 66 billion euros, most of which will be used on migrant reception initiatives as well as to support Ukraine over the next four years. Later, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Budapest would continue to block the allocation of additional funds from the EU budget to Ukraine until it saw clear justifications for that measure and not just requests to "give more money."

"As for the idea that we need to use extra funding for Ukraine's assistance, we have to refer to the fact that new and additional tasks in the finance sector must be addressed through the change of priorities and redistribution of budget," Scholz told a press conference, following the second day of the European Council Summit in Brussels.

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