Watch: Orban Blocks EU's 50 Billion Euro Ukraine Aid Package
- 19 Dec 2023 7:13 AM
Source: Bloomberg
Source: Bloomberg
Átlátszó’s sources close to the new German government indicate that Berlin is setting aside its economic interests and pushing for tough measures against the Hungarian government, as it views Viktor Orbán’s anti-Ukrainian policy as a threat to security.
Mankind today is facing a serious threat of a third world war, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said in New York on Wednesday, adding that the United Nations had to do everything it could to prevent such a conflict, for which it was crucial to make progress in ending the war in Ukraine.
Hungary’s foreign ministry has summoned Ukraine’s ambassador to Budapest after Ukrainian conscription officers beat a Transcarpathian Hungarian man who later died of his injuries, the ministry’s parliamentary state secretary said on Thursday.
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.
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