On Wednesday, the European Commission pledged a limited recourse loan of 90 billion euros to Ukraine, including 60 billion in military assistance and 30 billion in general budget support.
"[W]e are initiating a national petition. Hungary will once again push back against Brusselian pressure. We believe that decisions about war, peace, and our future must be made with the support and involvement of our people. This is how we will make our position clear to Europe and to the world," Orban wrote on X.
He added that the commission was ignoring not only the results of the December EU summit, but also "reality itself."
"They are daydreaming about Russian reparations and once again committing themselves to financing the war and providing unconditional funding to Ukraine. They are not troubled by the advance of the Russian war machine, Europe's dire financial situation, or the views of European citizens," the prime minister said.
On December 19, 2025, a summit in Brussels concluded with the EU temporarily abandoning plans to seize Russian state assets and instead agreeing to extend a 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine from the EU budget. Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic refused to take on responsibility for the loan.