DK spokesman Zsolt Gréczy said it was “regrettable” that “Hungarians need to be protected by the European Union from their own government” and insisted that upcoming generations would remain indebted as a result of the inter-governmental loan involved to finance the upgrade. He noted that the 10 billion euros borrowed from Russia was equal to 10% of Hungary’s GDP.

Gréczy also suggested that through providing the loan, Russia could obtain as great an influence in Hungary as the Soviet Union used to have. The prime minister’s office said on Tuesday in reaction to the report by Bruxinfo that he government had not violated any European Union public procurement rules in connection with the project to expand Hungary’s sole nuclear power station.

“The Hungarian government is not yet familiar with the European Commission’s official legal position on procurement issues,” the office said, adding that it had always provided the Commission with detailed responses to all questions and it would continue to do so in the future, too.

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