Hungary tries to save Russian businessmen from the new EU sanctions
PM Péter Szijjártó talked about that struggle to Ria Novosty, Russia’s official news agency. He said nine Russian businessmen are concerned, none of them representatives of Putin’s government.
Hungary tried to save Russian businessmen before
Telex.hu summarised what the Hungarian foreign minister said to Ria Novosty. Szijjártó argued that Turkic states asked the Hungarian government to exempt nine Russian businessmen, since they count on their investments in their countries. The Hungarian foreign minister said there was no legal ground to sanction those people. One of them is probably former Formula-1 champion Nikita Mazepin (Honda), whose father is a member of Putin’s inner circle.
1386 Russian nationals and 171 organisations are currently on the list. Szijjártó said they unsuccessfully tried to exempt Russians during the negotiations of the tenth sanction package. Hungary accepted all of the anti-Russia sanctions, though, in many cases, the country received privileges, for example, concerning crude oil deliveries.
Parliamentary group leader: ‘We are committed to peace’
MPs of ruling Fidesz-KDNP are submitting a “pro-peace resolution” to parliament because “Hungary is committed to peace and will use all means to give voice to that commitment”, the head of the parliamentary group of Fidesz said on public radio on Sunday.
Máté Kocsis told Kossuth Radio that Hungary is “under political pressure” from the leaders of other European Union members states, the “elite in Brussels” and even the US ambassador to get the country to “deliver weapons or at least allow weapons deliveries”. “That political pressure requires a political response,” he added.
While the government has voiced its stand on a number of occasions, Hungary’s parliament has not yet issued a pro-peace resolution, he said. The declaration aims to support the government’s position, condemn Russia’s military aggression and recognise Ukraine’s right to self-defence, he added.
“The Hungarian people have clearly said that Hungary does not want to be swept into the war,” he said.
Hungary to host Ukraine-North Macedonia handball match
Kisvárda, in the northeast of Hungary, will host a 2023 International Handball Federation Women’s World Championship play-off match between Ukraine and North Macedonia on April 11, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said in a post on Facebook on Sunday.
Szijjarto said the head of the Handball Federation of Ukraine asked Hungary a few weeks earlier for assistance to organise the match in Kisvarda because of the security situation in Ukraine. “Naturally, we said yes.” He added that the Hungarian government has decided to pay for the cost of organising the match as well as room and board for the teams. The two teams will face each other in the first leg of the play-offs in Skopje on April 8.
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Source: MTI, telex.hu
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Being committed to peace is like being committed to clean air and water. It is easy. Being committed to freedom and liberty, not just for oneself, but for other human beings is much harder. For those “peace” loving Hungarians and government officials the headline under this article reads “Putin: region Hungarians live in is old Russian land.” Just what do you think that means? Hungarians and their leaders should know better.
2/3 of Russians support Putin and are great people and very European. The US President has less than 1/3 – the EU can’t be much better.
China and the US are most responsible for the world Covid shutdown.
DHN has had more overage of Pizz Air in the last year than Covid.
Russia today is not the same as the USSR, just like Hungary is not the same. Both are are capitalist. The EU and US insist it’s a evil dictatorship and insist on treating as such and blame it for everything including blame for Trump getting elected. Russia is the blame for everything they don’t like. It like they keep saying it spying on the US. The US spy and tech cababilities make Russians look juvenile and has been for 30 years
@TM:
“Two-thirds”, eh? May I suggest to you that you are very much out of touch. The real figures are more likely to be somewhere between one-sixth and one-fifth. Pre-the Ukraine invasion, that figure may have been between one-quater to one-third, but even one-third is stretching it a bit.
Hilarious: “Russia is the blame for everything they don’t like”. So, when something goes wrong or is undesirable, what is the knee jerk reaction of our Politicians? In no particular order, the Brussels Bureaucrats, Liberal Elite, Soros Lapdogs. Sounds familiar?
Nikita Mazepin (not a “champion” but a former F1 pay driver) – he just had of the sanctions against him suspended, allowing him to travel within Europe and attempt to revive his career. Good question how he’s going to do that without the Uralkali funds, although he didn’t do too badly in the Asian Le Mans Series (having Neel Jani and Ahmad Al Harthy as co-drivers no doubt being of great benefit).
https://www.europeansanctions.com/2023/03/eu-court-suspends-parts-of-eu-sanctions-on-nikita-mazepin-until-full-hearing/