Double Hungarian veto thwarts loan for Ukraine and new sanctions on Russia
“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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