Section: The Budapest Times (Hungary)
Conflict in Ukraine is very uncomfortable for Budapest
Natural gasdependence of European countries on Russia (Russian gas as a percentage of total pipelineimports)Countries from top to bottom: Finland, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, Netherlands, Ireland Even if the European Union is only planning economic sanctions in the third round of...
Joining EU may be a false dream
Gabi is 26 years old, she was born in the Carpathian Ukraine and she grew up there. Even today she calls the territory a “Mecca of tolerance” with love in her voice, because so many ethnic groups are living there that in the end everybody is a minority. “The current territory of Ukraine belonged to five different countries in...
Tsar Putin and his Crimea theft
The Földessy couple on the conflict in Ukraine: “Noeconomic sanctions will stop Putin.” The world had learned only now that the conflict had reached this stage what kind of influence Russia had on Ukraine, she says. Moscow had not been prepared for the friendly resistance that was the right way to react, that was why it had answered...
The first servant
Viktor Orbán thought that he would jostle the mood a little in Ukraine. Just to make sure nothing remains so peaceful there. If the Russians are demanding autonomy on the eastern side of the country, why wouldn’t the general of Felcsút demand the same autonomy for the western side of the country? Right place in the right time. The...
Operation to find Hungarian man captured in Ukraine
An unidentified armed group has taken a Hungarian man captive in Ukraine, Hungary’s counter-terrorism force TEK told MTI on Monday. The man, a Hungarian citizen, was taken captive under unclear circumstances in eastern Ukraine, TEK said. The man had been travelling in a car with Hungarian licence plates in a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine...
Hungarian ambassador summoned in Kyiv
Ukraine’s foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned Hungary’s ambassador and voiced concern over recent remarks by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán about the necessity of autonomy and dual citizenship for ethnic Hungarians in that country, news agency Interfax-Ukraina reported. According to the report, ministry spokesman Yevhen...
Gas crisis: 2006, 2009… 2015?
The experts and politicians currently negotiating throughout Europe are sweating not only due to the high summer temperatures. Their worries about the stability of gas supply for next winter is also making them perspire. For now Moscow is tolerating how some European Union countries are helping out Ukraine since Russia stopped supplying the...
