Hungary negative about new EU sanctions against Russia

Budapest is convinced that new packages of EU sanctions against Russia are not needed.

“Unfortunately, there have been no professional assessments and analyses of the sanctions imposed by the European Union yet,” Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjártó said in an interview with TASS after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Szijjártó noted that the discussion of new sanctions is always “emotional, political and ideological in nature”.

“If we look at sanctions from a pragmatic point of view, we see that they cause more harm to Europe than to Russia,” the Hungarian foreign minister said.

“We believe that new packages of sanctions are not needed. We hope that one day we can return to civilized cooperation between East and West because it is in our interests,” Szijjártó said, adding that representatives of the economic sector share a similar point of view.