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Hungary and Slovakia Set to Block EU's Fresh Russia Sanction Package
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Prime Minister Fico is blocking the EU's goal of becoming free of Russian gas. Brussels money and promises should change it.
A political deal was struck last week between Viktor Orbán and 26 of his EU colleagues, while the new sanctions package is blocked by the Hungarian and Slovak governments.
The introduction of the 18th package of EU sanctions against Russia is currently blocked due to the positions of two countries at once - Slovakia and Hungary.
In Brussels, the call for tough measures against member states that oppose European policy is growing louder. In a newsletter for EUobserver, foreign editor Andrew Rettman openly calls for ‘war’ against the governments of Hungary and Slovakia. The reason is their refusal to agree to the eighteenth sanctions package against Russia.
The European Green Party has criticized Prime Minister Robert Fico for exercising his veto power in the adoption of the 18th package of sanctions against Russia. It called it “open sabotage” and Fico a “Trojan horse for Russia,” it said in a statement. In this regard, the party called on the European Council to replace the need for unanimity in the European Union’s foreign policy with qualified majority voting, especially on issues of support fo…
It is a matter of several hundred billion forints. According to the parliamentary state secretary of the Ministry of Energy (EM), the EU's planned embargo on Russian energy could cost the Hungarian economy up to 800 billion forints ... ...
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