Orbán Fights Back: Hungarian PM Vetoes European Aid Package for Ukraine, Warns He Can Still Block Kiev’s Membership in the EU
Not so fast – says Orbán.
The European Union leaders’ jubilation over the ‘historic’ approval of Ukrainian ascension talks was indeed short-lived, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán exercised his veto and blocked a major European Union aid package for Kiev.
Not only that, but Orbán also warned he ‘could still halt’ Kiev’s accession to the bloc after membership talks won EU approval.
The development comes a day after European Union’s 26 other leaders took agreed to start negotiations with a country at war, effectively bypassing Orban’s grievances by negotiating his departure from the room during the vote.[
Reuters reported:
“But, hours later, they could not overcome resistance from Orban,
