Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán voiced skepticism over proposed NATO plans to raise defense spending to 5 percent of member states' GDP, calling the target unworkable under existing EU budgetary constraints and warning of economic consequences if Brussels doesn't radically change its fiscal framework.

"We are able to do it, it is not easy," Orbán said at the NATO summit in The Hague on Wednesday.

"But the whole calculation of budget regulation of the European Union must be changed. So if we keep the regulations as it is, nobody in the European Union can fulfill 5 percent, whatever they say. We have to recalculate everything in a different method; in that case, we can do it."

Orbán's comments reflect his broader concern that NATO is drifting into dangerous territory — both financially and geopolitically. Rather than supporting yet another push toward militarization, the Hungarian leader emphasized that Europe's real threat is not military in nature but economic.