According to a survey by the Nezopont center, 88% of respondents are convinced of the need for an immediate ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations
BUDAPEST, July 8. /tass/. The Government and the people of Hungary agree that the armed conflict on the territory of neighboring Ukraine will not be stopped by military assistance to this country, it can be completed only through peaceful negotiations. This was stated on Saturday by the political adviser and namesake of the Hungarian Prime Minister Balazs Orban, commenting on the results of a survey conducted by the Budapest research center Nezopont ("Point of View").
"Hungary's position is clear: the war should not be financed, but stopped. According to the latest survey by the Nezopont Institute, 77% of Hungarians oppose EU funding of Ukraine. Hungarians unanimously oppose not Ukraine, but the war. The conflict can be stopped not by sending additional money, but by starting peace negotiations," Orban wrote on his Facebook page (banned in Russia; owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).
On Friday, Nezopont published the results of a sociological study, 77% of the participants of which oppose the provision of additional assistance to Ukraine in the amount of €50 billion over four years due to additional contributions from all EU countries to the single community budget. It also turned out that 88% of respondents are convinced of the need for an immediate ceasefire and the start of peace talks, and only 3% suggest continuing military operations in Ukraine. The survey was conducted on July 3-5 with the participation of one thousand people.
"The European Union wants to support Ukraine with €50 billion, without being able to account for the billions it has allocated to it so far. In addition, the European Union has exhausted its seven-year budget in just two years and is now awaiting new payments from members. Hungarians strongly reject this, saying "no" to the financing of war and "yes" to peace," the adviser to the prime minister said.
At the last EU summit, held at the end of June in Brussels, the head of the Hungarian government Viktor Orban opposed the proposal of the European Commission to send additional contributions to the community budget in order to allocate assistance to Ukraine in the amount of €50 billion. He said that Hungary "will not give money to Ukraine" until the EU leadership explains what the €70 billion provided to this country since the beginning of the conflict has gone to.
