Watch: Orban Blocks EU's 50 Billion Euro Ukraine Aid Package
- 19 Dec 2023 7:13 AM
Source: Bloomberg
Source: Bloomberg
“We’re paying higher prices in shops … because of the war in Ukraine,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to public radio on Friday, adding that the war was also dampening Hungary’s economic growth.
For the first time in history, natural gas deliveries have started from Azerbaijan to Hungary, which greatly contributes to Hungary’s diversification efforts in energy supply, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said in Baku.
Hungarian Interchurch Aid has helped several thousand refugees at its Budapest centre for supporting Ukrainian refugees that opened eighteen months ago, the organisation’s head said on Friday, after meeting with Transcarpathia governor Viktor Mikita.
The Hungarian government has taken further steps in recent weeks “so that we can again talk about mutual trust in Hungary-Ukraine relations,” the foreign minister said on Facebook.
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