Today the extraordinary summit of the 27 on the review of the common budget and on aid to Ukraine
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The leaders are arriving at the Europa Building (the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has arrived) at the Europa Building, and are preparing for the final negotiation - or clash - with Viktor Orban to overturn the Hungarian veto and obtain a 27-party agreement on the entire budget package, which includes multi-year assistance to Kiev, funding for migration and funding for the Step platform, on technological innovation
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The summit is also marked by farmers' protests.
The summit of the 27 began after a night of negotiations: the common budget dossier was the subject of two key meetings, the one between Orban and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the one between the Hungarian Prime Minister and Emmanuel Macron immediately afterwards, both lasting about an hour. Now.
Orban did not expose himself when leaving the meeting with Macron.
However, the persistence of his veto could block the European aid machine and the common budget, marking a before and after in relations between the EU and Hungary.
"I will work for a 27-member agreement" on aid to Ukraine,
said German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz
as he arrived at the European Council in Brussels.
"Everyone needs to do more."
The chancellor also indicated that he wanted to raise the issue of increasing arms supplies to Ukraine.
“There is only one show in town and that is to find an agreement at 27, including Hungary because any other solution is very difficult,” said the Dutch prime minister,
Mark Rutte
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"Many talks are underway, but at the moment there is no definitive result" admitted the prime minister, however saying he was optimistic about the possibility of reaching an agreement, also because, he explained, there are many reasons why it is also interesting to Orban find a solution at 27. "It is impossible for me to go into the merits of every wish" of the Hungarian prime minister, Rutte said, replying to a question on Budapest's requests to approve the aid package for Ukraine.