The EU finalizes a plan B to send funds to Ukraine without Hungary while offering Orbán a minimal concession. Brussels proposes to Budapest to review European aid for kyiv annually, but without granting veto power to try to save an agreement.

To carry it out, it would only require the approval of a majority of the partners and not unanimity. “Russia will be rubbing its hands because it will have achieved a crack, a division. Although it is made visible that it is all the Member States against Hungary,” says a diplomat.