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Seizing Russian assets is 'stupid', Orban warns as EU leaders meet to discuss Ukraine funding
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticises EU proposals to confiscate frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, arguing the move would escalate the conflict and undermine efforts toward peace.
Orbán Warns EU Is Undermining Unanimity on Frozen Russian Assets - Hungarian Conservative
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused the European Union of undermining member states’ rights by bypassing unanimity on frozen Russian assets, warning that such steps set dangerous precedents and risk dragging the bloc deeper into the war.
Viktor Orbán described the recently concluded EU summit as a great success, after a decision was made that the member states would not touch frozen Russian assets despite the increasingly strong intention. The Prime Minister spoke in Brussels early Friday morning that the use of frozen Russian money for Ukraine's purposes could be interpreted as a declaration of war, that it would have immediately dragged us into a war, that we have now managed …
We can therefore guarantee the avoidance of indebtedness in the matter of financing the Ukrainian-Russian war as long as there is a national government in Hungary, the Prime Minister's political director emphasized.
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