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Hungary and Slovakia together have prevented the approval of the latest European Union sanctions package, the foreign minister said after a meeting of the EU foreign affairs council in Brussels on Monday, adding that they protested against plans to ban the purchase of cheap Russian gas and crude.
The Hungarian government wants to definitely avoid a situation where Ukraine’s fast-tracked accession to the European Union would make Hungary a destination for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian jobseekers and a "gateway for the Ukrainian mafia", Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister said.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Slovak-Hungarian relations are the best they have ever been, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a joint press conference with Slovak counterpart Robert Fico in Bratislava.
A bipartisan proposal by US senators would impose a 500% tariff on US exports from countries that do not abandon their Russian energy imports, if Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to refuse to engage in good faith ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine or violates any agreement, Bloomberg reported.
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