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📰 Le Pen, Orbán and the Loan That Would ‘Ruin’ France Marine Le Pen flew to Budapest and did exactly what everyone expected: she wrapped Viktor Orbán’s Ukraine veto in the French flag. In Hungary, Le Pen offered full-throated support for her “friend” Orbán, carefully avoiding any criticism of his veto on the €90 billion EU loan meant to keep Ukraine’s war effort afloat. Orbán, she said, is “defending Hungary’s interests” by blocking the package that, in her telling, would “ruin” France and prolong “a war that is a real slaughter for the vanity of a few leaders.” Behind the rhetoric sits a simple budget math problem Paris no longer bothers to hide. France is running one of the Eurozone’s largest deficits, with debt above 110 percent of GDP, while promising both massive rearmament and continued Ukraine support — a combination that already forces talk of tens of billions in cuts or new austerity. Add another giant, open‑ended Ukraine facility on top, and Le Pen’s camp sees a gift‑wrapped campaign issue: Brussels spends, Paris bleeds. So Orbán blocks the loan in the name of sovereignty, Le Pen applauds in the name of French taxpayers, and Kyiv reads the subtext: Europe’s political appetite for funding this war at scale is eroding faster than its finances. “Solidarity” stays in the speeches; in the voting booths and bond markets, the calculation is shifting to something much simpler — who can still afford this war, and for how long. #france#hungary#lepen#orban#ukraine#eu#debt#warEconomy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸