Viktor Orbán has ramped up pressure on Kyiv to restart oil transit to Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline
The European Union continues to look for ways to get around Hungary’s block on the latest round of sanctions against Russia and on the release of the €90bn loan to Ukraine.
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said yesterday in Kyiv:
“The loan was agreed by 27 heads of state and government in the European Council, they have given their word. This word cannot be broken, so we will deliver on the loan one way or the other.”
“We take a decision financially favourable to Ukraine that I personally disapprove, then Ukraine creates an energy emergency situation in Hungary, and you ask me to pretend that nothing happened.”
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