Freezing Coolness Between NATO And Hungary

• VOLODYMYR OMELYAN
• 1.11.2024, 18:55

Orbán is becoming a problem.

That moment when NATO military advisers and ambassadors gathered to talk sense into the Alliance's Hungarian representatives to behave more adequately and in the interests of the organization, and they... ignored the meeting. What went wrong?

NATO allies' frustrations with Budapest are reaching a boiling point as Hungary continues to flirt with Russia, Politico reports.

The rift between Budapest and NATO deepened yesterday when Hungarian officials failed to show up for a meeting of all NATO ambassadors and military advisers. The event was aimed at discussing Hungary's policy of encouraging ties with Russia and China. Hungary is blocking EU efforts to return funds for arms sales to Ukraine, making it difficult to use revenues from frozen Russian assets to finance Kyiv.

Orbán is moving away from his traditional pro-Western orientation, making him a problematic ally in NATO and the EU.

Orbán has also turned to outside diplomacy – often undermining EU and NATO efforts. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has previously argued that relations with the East and West need to be maintained. In doing so, Orbán is moving away from the traditional Western orientation that has made him a problematic NATO and EU ally.

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