Following a meeting of the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the EU “is still gripped by war psychosis”, and the majority refused to change its “failed strategy”.
Minister Szijjártó told a press conference that Hungary urged a ceasefire and peace talks. Hungary has once again refused to take part in delivering weapons to Ukraine, he added. According to one proposal, the European Peace Facility would be extended by another five billion euros to finance military equipment, he said. “We made it clear we wouldn’t participate in joint actions aimed at weapons deliveries and will refrain from blocking such a decision only if it does not impose any duties on us, financial or otherwise,” he said. Szijjártó said that thanks to a change in the rules of abstention, Hungary’s part of those five billion euros would not finance materiel. Hungary will have the opportunity to determine the use of those monies, which could be ploughed into the fight against migration or strengthening stability in the Western Balkans, he said.