Since his triumphant re -election, the Hungarian Prime Minister has multiplied the threats of blocking in Brussels.
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“nem” (“no” in Hungarian) at the Russian oil embargo. “Nem” to sanctions against the Russian Orthodox patriarch, Kirill. “Nem” with the minimum world taxation of multinationals … Since its triumphant re -election in the legislative elections of April 3, Viktor Orban seems to have only this word to the mouth in Europe. Even if they are not all of the same scale and of the same nature, veto and blocking threats taken in the name of the defense “of the interests of Hungary” are linked to Brussels, where some suspect the Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister To roll for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, with whom he maintains warm relationships.
Questioned on this subject by the German daily Tagesspiegel, on July 2, the leader of the European People’s Party (Conservative), Manfred Weber, thus denounced “the very particular game of Orban at the European table”, declaring ” To have tired of depending on him for questions of foreign policy or embargo on petroleum “, which must all be decided unanimously in the European Union (EU). Increasingly isolated within Central Europe, where its traditional allies of the Visegrad group (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia) openly have turned his back since he refused to commit behind Ukraine, the Nationalist head of government seems to have decided, at 59, to have a resolutely isolationist turn in the country of ten million inhabitants he has been running an iron fist for twelve years.
“bargaining” which abites Europe
For the moment, Mr. Orban is careful not to go to the divorce with the Western camp, while his country has a crucial need for community funds. He never opposed military aid that his partners could bring to kyiv and ended up approving all the packages of sanctions decided in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, even if he obtained a derogation in This concerns oil embargo at the end of painful weeks of negotiation. “We cannot put our veto every week,” he said on Friday 1 er July, recognizing being “alone” in Europe to think that these sanctions are useless Name of a Putin victory which he judges visibly inevitable. “Ukraine fights heroically, but slowly the military realities settle down. In a war, the most important is the soldiers, and [the Ukrainians] are running out. We do not need sanctions , but of an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations, “said Orban, who qualifies as” dove “in the face” to all the others who are hawks “.
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