KYIV — Hungary shouldn’t “disrespect” the EU’s resolution to present €90 billion to Ukraine, which Budapest has blocked after initially agreeing final December, European Council President António Costa advised POLITICO.
“We have to implement what we agreed on the 18th of December, to ship the €90B mortgage to Ukraine,” Costa mentioned in Kyiv, the place he traveled with different leaders to mark the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion. “And no person can disrespect the choice from the European Council.”
Budapest has threatened to dam the €90B mortgage over a dispute with Ukraine about an oil pipeline connecting Russia to Central Europe, which Hungary says Kyiv is refusing to function in a bid to orchestrate an vitality disaster. Ukraine insists the pipeline is offline attributable to a Russian strike.
“We talked, we negotiate, we agreed, after which we have to ship on this,” Costa mentioned concerning the funding, including Hungary ought to “instantly respect what we collectively determined final December.”
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