For the second time, the Hungarian government wants the names of four Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin removed from the EU sanctions list. Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU Andrzej Sados called such actions ‘incomprehensible and shameful.’ Moreover, now that the tenth package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus is being actively discussed in the EU, Viktor Orbán is preparing the ground for countering them, writes Wirtualna Polska.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán says the massive corruption scandal in the European Union should be used as an opportunity to drain the swamp in Brussels.
Western Alliance sanctions on Russia have not achieved any of the EU’s stated goals and only backfired by hurting the economies of member states, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
Giorgia Meloni was not the right’s only big election winner this weekend. In fact, in just one year, the VOX Party in Spain, the National Rally in France, the Sweden Democrats, the Czech Republic’s right-wing along with the pro-Putin government of Serbia consolidated their growing power and prestige with resurgent anti-sanctions Eurosceptic Hungary.
According to him, the EU needs to change its strategy. ‘No one is interested in seeing the whole of Europe go bankrupt. After the oil embargo, they want to impose a gas embargo, then we will destroy the entire European economy,’ Orbán said on Kossuth radio. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti .
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary, Peter Szijjártó, said that he shares the opinion of the Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic, Laszlo Köver, about the mental problems of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which explain his attacks on foreign leaders. He announced this on Monday on his Facebook page (banned in the Russian Federation; owned by the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).
Hungary scores a major victory over the English national team, but Hungarian fans booing becomes the top international story. Hungary’s national football team scored its first win against England in 60 years in a Nations League match on Saturday. This in itself was an achievement of great importance in the world of football.
After all-day talks lasting into the early hours of Tuesday, the unelected 27 Commissioners of the European Union agreed on the sixth embargo package against Russia, while Hungary scored a major diplomatic success as it got the exemption on pipeline oil deliveries it requested.
Just as the heads of state and government were gathering in Brussels for a two-day summit to discuss a new set of sanctions against Russia – or rather, scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything else they could chastise Putin with, Hungary restated its position that it cannot stand behind the proposed sanctions.
On the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Hungary, the leader of the Vlaams Belang (VL) Belgian nationalist party Tom Van Grieken delivered a delivery that many have regarded as a highlight during the conference.
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