The catch-up and reform funds did not come, but agricultural subsidies and cohesion funds from the previous cycle did, so we were not even temporarily outside the net beneficiaries.

Due to concerns about the rule of law, the EU has blocked the payment of much of the money this year – the majority of the catch-up and recovery funds have been frozen even after €10.2 billion has been released – but despite this, Hungary has not been moved from the net beneficiary category to the net beneficiary category. Net contributor, not even periodically, writes A file.

On Friday, when Palaz Orbán was asked in Brussels why Viktor Orbán was blocking the amendment of the EU budget – and thus postponing the decision on the 50 billion euros to be given to Ukraine – when Hungary receives more money from the EU than it pays. the 444 According to his report, the Prime Minister’s advisor said that this last statement is incorrect, because Hungary has become a net contributor in recent years.

But based on the portfolio article, Palaz-Orbán’s statement is not true, because even with the RRF frozen, subsidies paid from the new Common Agricultural Policy continued to come from the EU common budget, and we can still access cohesion funds from the EU. The previous seven-year financial framework 2014-2020. In addition, a significant portion of post-2014-2020 funding is only now reaching the Hungarian budget. Advance payments were also not hampered by the withholding of Rapid Response Force funds.

According to the newspaper, the balance looks like this With the 2021-2027 Rapid Response Fund and Cohesion Funds suspended, nearly half of Hungary’s total revenue of 2,765.2 billion annually, 1,273 billion forints, could be lost by the end of the year. year, while 1.491 billion could flow to the budget. According to the November fiscal report, EU revenues of HUF 1,265.4 billion were received in the budget by December.

According to the revised version of the budget adopted in March, the government calculated that Hungary’s budget contribution to the EU budget this year would amount to 662.16 billion Hungarian forints. On the other hand, this could have declined along the way, because our GDP is expected to eventually contract, and the strength of the forint has strengthened relative to the euro (although the latter is also reflected in payments, so technically it could Get less support in forint.)

In addition to the total 662.6 billion Hungarian forints of payments, 1,265.4 billion Hungarian forints have already been received, including blockings, meaning that Hungary is still considered a beneficiary in the EU.