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MEPs Daniel Freund (far left), Petri Sarvamaa (left), and Monika Hohlmeier (centre) on their visit to Budapest (Photo: European Parliament)

MEPs urge Orbán to act to unblock EU money

MEPs tasked with controlling spending of EU funds said they continued to have "great concerns" on how Hungary is handling EU money and called on prime minister Viktor Orbán's government to implement reforms to unblock suspended EU funds.

"Our goal is not to stop the money, our goal is that the money is spent in Hungary," German centre-right MEP Monika Hohlmeier told reporters on Wednesday (17 May) in Budapest.

The delegation of the European Parliament's budget control committee ...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

MEPs Daniel Freund (far left), Petri Sarvamaa (left), and Monika Hohlmeier (centre) on their visit to Budapest (Photo: European Parliament)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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