European Union leaders will meet at a summit on 1 February to clarify relations with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán over aid to Ukraine.
This is reported by the Financial Times.
It is noted that the EU heads of state will make a last-ditch attempt to force Orban to agree to allocate “vital aid” to Kiev amid strained relations between Brussels and Budapest.
European officials fear that if the Hungarian prime minister maintains his veto on aid to Kiev, it will lead to “an irreparable rupture within the association”.
It is noted that the €50bn funding for Ukraine over the next four years cannot be approved without the consent of the Hungarian authorities.
Earlier, Orban accused the EU of an ideological war against Hungary.
In his opinion, the EU is getting closer to imperialism and looks less and less like a community of sovereign states.
Before that, the Financial Times quoted an EU document as saying that the EU might sabotage the Hungarian economy if Budapest does not lift its veto on aid to Kiev at the summit in Brussels on 1 February.