Is Hungary undermining the West’s resolve on Ukraine?
World Review from the New Statesman
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Hungary was presenting itself as the strongest opponent of this oil embargo, because victor orban is by some distance the most proputan leader in overn member state. And rightly or wrongly, hehe continued to block ehu plans for an energy embargo. But i think there's quite an interesting dynamic here, which his thits. Hungary, along with poland, had long been the kind of most reticent member state. Both countries, which are ruled by illiberal, nationalist governments, had each other's back in te ease institutions. So any time you decided that it might want to sanction one or other of these countries, the other country would use its weight to block any
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