Slovakia’s Robert Fico accused the German chancellor of “blackmail” as four EU countries resisted his demand to link approval of the bloc’s next long-term budget to fresh financial support for Ukraine.
The leaders of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria have pushed back against German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ultimatum to make approval of the EU’s next long-term budget conditional on fresh financial support for Ukraine.
Those countries are: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria.
So basically Bulgaria has taken Poland’s place in the Visegrád Group.
Czechia is a surprise for me.
countries that can’t afford providing aid upset at Germany for trying to force everyone to pay for it
Countries that receive money from the EU upset they are asked to give something themselves for a friendly state fighting a proxy war for them.
They think they won’t have to pay when they’re occupied by russia, I guess
In the long term none of them can afford not to.
