Hungary Won't Discuss Russia Oil Ban At Next Week's EU Summit

Hungary Won't Discuss Russia Oil Ban At Next Week's EU Summit

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Hungary, the main holdout to the EU reaching an agreement on an embargo of Russian oil imports, is unwilling to discuss the potential ban at the EU summit on May 30 and 31, top Hungarian officials say. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a letter to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, asking that the oil embargo be removed from the topics of discussion at the summit, according to the document dated March 23 and obtained by Reuters.  On Wednesday, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that if the ban is…

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