For the first time since the Maidan revolution, Ukraine’s road to the transatlantic community is being actively blocked not only by Russia but by an EU and NATO member state as well: Hungary. While Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been a vocal critic of sanctions and is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strongest allies within the EU, Hungary has generally followed the NATO and EU mainstream in supporting Ukraine politically. That has changed, however, since the adoption of a controversial education act in Ukraine this autumn, which Orbán’s government objects to—but his argument seems more of a pretext to cover up the real cause.
Ukraine-European Union Relations
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Péter Krekó, Patrik Szicherle: Why is Hungary blocking Ukraine’s Western integration?
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives to attend the first day of a European union summit in Brussels on Dec. 14.
