Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said new penalties will only accelerate inflation.
Hungary will veto any EU sanctions that may affect collaboration with Russia’s nuclear energy sector, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday in an interview with state radio.Kiev has repeatedly called on the 27-nation bloc to include the Russian nuclear industry on its list of sanctions, with some member states supporting the idea.Hungarian authorities had previously said that cooperation with Russia on nuclear energy is essential for Budapest, which is planning to expand a Russian-built nuclear power plant.“We will not allow the [EU’s] plan to include nuclear energy in the sanctions to be implemented,” the premier said, stressing that penalties against nuclear energy “must obviously be vetoed.”The Hungarian government has repeatedly criticized the EU’s Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia, noting the penalties have failed to weaken the country in a meaningful way but risk destroying the European economy.
this article was originally published by RT.
