Orbán urges de-escalation, peaceful resolution to Ukraine-Russia standoff

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Saturday urged de-escalation and a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine-Russia standoff.

After a meeting of right-wing party leaders in Madrid, Orbán told journalists that he had appealed to everyone attending the meeting to take a stand for a peaceful resolution and de-escalation.

Photo: MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Fischer Zoltán

Orbán said Europe’s new security architecture was an important issue and “Europeans must be involved in some way”.

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Meanwhile, prime minister insisted that European climate policy was a failure, adding that raising energy prices to protect the climate was “unreasonable”. Hungary, he said, was intent on preventing Brussels from imposing new taxes on car and homeowners.

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Source: MTI