BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary is ready to sue the European Commission to reimburse the costs of protecting the European Union’s external border, which Budapest says has cost it some 2 billion euros ($2.20 billion), Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said.
“We are ready to sue the European Commission after it had reimbursed partially or in full the costs incurred by other member states protecting the Schengen border,” Gergely Gulyas told a news conference on Thursday.
“Hungary has spent 2 billion euros on protecting the Schengen border in the past years without getting any meaningful contribution whatsoever from the EU.”
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(Reporting by Krisztina Than and Gergely Szakacs)
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