Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened Thursday to veto an EU plan to boost aid and open membership talks for Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Europe’s leaders not to hand Russia a political victory. The EU’s 27 leaders were focused at a crunch summit in Brussels on granting Kyiv a four-year €50 billion ($55 billion) funding package and an agreement to launch formal EU talks for Ukraine on joining the bloc. With Ukraine’s future at stake, “everything that is decided or not decided here is going to be watched just as closely in Washington as it will be in Moscow,” FRANCE 24’s Armen Georgian said.
All eyes on Hungary’s Orban as EU to decide on Ukraine support • FRANCE 24 English
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