Hungary blocks EU sanctions on the question of Patriarch Kirill. Orban wins across the board with vetoes
Hungary blocked the latest EU sanctions package against Russia over objection to the sanction by Patriarch Kiril I , leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. A strange thing, which seems to have been done on purpose to show the uselessness of the Commission.
Earlier this week, the EU reached an agreement in principle on a new sanctions package that includes an export ban on Russian oil with exemptions for pipeline supplies to Hungary and other landlocked countries.
EU officials met on Wednesday evening to finalize the deal and turn it into law, but Hungary insisted sanctions against Patriarch Kirill must be lifted. "The deal is blocked because Hungary opposes sanctions against Patriarch Kirill," said an EU diplomat, as reported by Al Jazeera.
Further talks were expected on Wednesday night, but since the early hours of Thursday morning in Brussels there has been no news of an EU agreement on the final version of the sanctions package.
According to Reuters, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long since made his stance against sanctions known to the leader of the Russian Church:
Hungary's opposition to potential EU sanctions against the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, "has been known for a long time," Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief press officer told state news agency MTI on Thursday. .
" We will not allow the inclusion of ecclesiastical leaders in the sanctions list ," Orban reiterated this week in a radio interview, stressing that religious freedom must be protected as a " sacred issue ".
Eventually Orban got what he wanted to kick off the distant, and therefore useless, sanctions on EU oil, and Kirill was barred from personal sanctions.
NOW – EU AMBASSADORS APPROVES SANCTIONS DEAL, sources tell @E_Krukowska & me
EU removes Patriarch Kirill from sanctions list, we're told
– Jorge Valero (@europressos) June 2, 2022
How does Orban get almost everything he wants? Simple: he has the courage to say no and he has no Judas that can be bought by the commission within the government or parliament . However, the EU's planned export ban on Russian oil will prohibit supplies from Russian ships from 2023. While providing exemptions for pipeline supplies, EU officials said the ban will cut around 90% of oil imports. of the EU from Russia.
The sanctions are meant to harm Russia, but as the EU prepared the ban, Moscow scrambled to find other markets and now ships more than double the oil it was carrying before the invasion of Ukraine. Shipments went to China and India, and now Asia has overtaken Europe as the number one buyer of Russian oil. It is therefore a question of sanctions of the menga.
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