{"id":770,"date":"2025-01-25T18:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2025-01-25T19:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T19:26:04","slug":"orban-will-face-consequences-for-blocking-sanctions-polish-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/orban-will-face-consequences-for-blocking-sanctions-polish-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Orban will face \u2018consequences\u2019 for blocking sanctions \u2013 Polish PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hungarian leader has threatened to obstruct the EU\u2019s sanctions on Russia if Ukraine refuses to resume gas transits<\/strong><\/p>\n

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, will be treated as if he is on Russia\u2019s side if he blocks the renewal of EU sanctions on Moscow, and will face \u201cconsequences\u201d<\/em> as a result.<\/p>\n

The EU has imposed 15 rounds of economic penalties on Russia since the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022, freezing Moscow\u2019s sovereign assets and severing almost all trade and energy links between the bloc and Russia. These sanctions must be renewed every six months with the unanimous consent of all 27 EU member states, with the next deadline on January 31.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened to \u201cpull the handbrake\u201d<\/em> on this renewal if Kiev does not restart a transit deal with Russian energy giant Gazprom to allow Russian gas to flow into the EU via Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Viktor Orban really blocks European sanctions at a key moment for the war, it\u2019ll be absolutely clear that in this big game for the security and future of Europe, he is playing in [Russian President Vladimir] Putin\u2019s team, not in ours,\u201d<\/em> Tusk wrote in a post on X on Saturday. \u201cWith all the consequences of this fact.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt may be difficult for Soros\u2019 agent to understand, but when it comes to teams, we play for the Hungarian team,\u201d<\/em> Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto responded on Facebook, accusing Tusk of doing the bidding of billionaire liberal financier George Soros.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not want to continue paying the price for other people\u2019s wars and will not allow anyone to endanger the security of our energy supply, because Hungary comes first for us,\u201d<\/em> Szijjarto added.<\/p>\n

Orban is not the only EU leader angered by Kiev\u2019s decision to stop gas transit. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced last weekend that he would veto any future EU aid to Kiev over the move, warning that he could also halt the supply of electricity to Ukraine and cut humanitarian aid deliveries. Slovakia depends on Russian gas to meet about 60% of its demand.<\/p>\n

Orban has called for a diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine conflict since its outset, and accused his fellow EU leaders of prolonging the bloodshed by supplying money and weapons to Kiev.<\/p>\n

He has also threatened to veto several of the EU\u2019s sanctions packages, agreeing to these measures only after securing concessions from Brussels, including a partial exemption from the EU\u2019s bloc-wide oil embargo and a guarantee that its nuclear sector won\u2019t be affected by future packages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hungarian leader has threatened to obstruct the EU\u2019s sanctions on Russia if Ukraine refuses to resume gas transits Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, will be treated as if he is on Russia\u2019s side if he blocks the renewal of EU sanctions on Moscow, and will face…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}