“We should not tie together things that are not connected to each other at all,” High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Monday amid a new crisis caused by back-to-back Hungarian vetoes.
On the eve of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the European Union has become effectively paralysed by two back-to-back Hungarian vetoes.
A €90 billion emergency loan for Kyiv and a new package of sanctions against Moscow are being held up by Budapest over an energy dispute involving the transit of Russian oil through the Soviet-era Druzbha pipeline.
“We should not tie together things that are not connected to each other at all,” High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Monday morning before heading to a meeting of foreign affairs ministers that was intended to approve the sanctions.
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