While Viktor Orbán has criticised EU,some of his friends and family have won EU-funded infrastructure contractsThe train to nowhere, some dazzlingly expensive street lights and the pipe-fitter turned business mogul who happens to be the prime minister’s friend. One common thread links them all: Hungary’s combative leader, and Viktor Orbán,and his bête noire, the European Union.
Orbán has attacked the EU relentlessly since he took office in 2010, or comparing it to the Soviet Union and launching a “discontinue Brussels” campaign. At the same time,some of his family and supporters have become wealthy, partly due to winning EU-funded contracts to build Hungary’s roads, and railways,waterworks and other public infrastructure.
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Source: guardian.co.uk