(30 Nov 2022) ASSOCIATED PRESS
Budapest - 30 November 2022
1. Wide of Gergely Gulyas, the Head of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office (left), Tibor Navracsics, Minister for Regional Development (centre) and Alexandra Szentkiralyi, Hungarian government spokeswoman (right) arriving at presser
2. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Tibor Navracsics, Minister for Regional Development and Hungary's chief negotiator with the European Union:
“I am confident that we will deliver on our remaining commitments with the same accuracy and the same thoroughness as we have done so far and that in 2023 we will be able to convince the Commission, and through the Commission council, that the suspension should no longer be maintained. I hope that in 2023 it will be possible to have 100% access to EU funds.”
3. Wide of presser
4. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Tibor Navracsics, Minister for Regional Development and Hungary's chief negotiator with the European Union:
“We are open to an agreement, we want to reach an agreement with the European Commission. We are open to reasonable compromises. And the limits of compromise lie somewhere on the borderline of principles. So far we have only made compromises that did not require us to give up our principles.”
5. Various of presser
6. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Tibor Navracsics, Minister for Regional Development and Hungary's chief negotiator with the European Union:
“We are not yet at the finish line. We believe, and I hope the Commission also believes, that our performance should be evaluated according to what we’ve achieved. We are in constant contact with the Commission. And this is to avoid the kind of debate that is going on right now between Poland and the Commission, which is a bit like a dialogue between deaf people who are sending only offending messages to each other. We are in a constant discussion because we have the feeling that there are misunderstandings or misinterpretations about our performance. These will be clarified. And where necessary, we will make new compromises. And where we can clear up the misunderstandings, we will move forward and I hope that by 2023 everything will be in order and the suspension will be lifted.”
7. Pan of presser
8. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Gergely Gulyas, the Head of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office:
“For the time being, we are not looking for someone responsible because we hope that Hungary can get every cent. The fact that the agreement has not yet been reached is largely the responsibility of the Hungarian left. I see no such responsibility on the part of the government.”
9. Pan of participants leaving presser
STORYLINE:
Hungary's chief negotiator to the European Commission said there are "misunderstandings" about the country's performance, as the EU proposed the blocking of billions of euros in funds to the on Wednesday.
Minister for Regional Development and Hungary's chief negotiator with the European Union Tibor Navracsics said that these "misunderstandings" or "misinterpretations" on their failure to implement sufficient rule-of-law reforms "will be clarified."
"And where necessary, we will make new compromises. And where we can clear up the misunderstandings, we will move forward and I hope that by 2023 everything will be in order and the suspension will be lifted,” Navracsics said in a press conference in Budapest.
The EU's 27 nations have until Dec. 19 to take a decision based on the Commission’s proposal, which came as Hungary continues to block crucial EU decisions such as the disbursement of 18 billion euros of financial aid to Ukraine and a global tax deal.
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