Ukraine suffers money detback after Hungary blocks $100 billion from Europe
The pipeline issue gives Orbán something concrete to talk about after years of pledging to keep Hungary out of the war and backing Trump’s plans to end it, said Zselyke Csaky, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform think-tank. “Orbán is behind in the election campaign and he needed some tangible proof that can make it look like Ukraine posed a threat,” she said. “The pipeline provides this excuse.”