Hungary has always taken the stand that in the area of fiscal policy national governments' room for manoeuvre, not the European Commission's, must be increased, Varga said. The approved draft of the reform strengthens the roles of member states and the Council as opposed to that of the EC, he added.
Hungary's proposal to account for additional defense expenditures when calculating Maastricht deficit levels was also written into the draft, he said.
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