Hungary's stance and statements on the war in Ukraine severely restrict the room for cooperation among Central European countries in foreign affairs, chief of Slovak diplomacy Ivan Korcok declared after a session of the Government on Thursday. Korcok was responding to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's decision to declare a state of emergency over the war in Ukraine and his claim that "Brussels sanctions are causing economic collapse and drastic price hikes". Korcok finds such statements to be inappropriate and misleading.
"There's no such thing as Brussels sanctions. They are sanctions passed by individual EU-member states in response to Russia's aggression," underlined Korcok.
Korcok conceded that Hungary has a completely different stance on the war in Ukraine from the other Visegrad Four countries: Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. "We're not at war, but this war concerns us inherently," he noted, adding that if every EU state adopted the same "this-war-doesn't-concern-us stance" as Hungary's, Slovakia would have a different neighbour from Ukraine on its eastern border by now.
Source: TASR
