Viktor Orban's blockade of EU aid to Ukraine is the latest low point in a troubled relationship. The Hungarian prime minister was once a proponent of a democratic Ukraine. What happened? DW's Keno Verseck reports.
For months, there has been speculation as to whetherreally would veto the bloc's planned €18-billion loan for Ukraine. Right up to the end, many European politicians hoped that Orban was bluffing.
Viktor Orban caused consternation in Ukraine and Romania when he wore a scarf with a map of Hungary's pre-World War I territory, which included parts of modern-day Romania and UkraineOrban recently said that Hungary was interested in having a"sovereign state between Russia and Central Europe that we will, for the sake of simplicity, now call Ukraine.
At its summit in Bucharest in April 2008, NATO decided not to admit Ukraine and Georgia to the military alliance. A few months later, just after the start of Russia's war against Georgia, Orban said that this had been a bad decision. At the time, he was still a member of the opposition.But Orban sang a very different tune once he became prime minister in 2010.
In September 2018, the issue of dual citizenship caused a major diplomatic rift between the two countries. At the time, a leaked video showed Ukrainian citizens at the Hungarian consulate in Berehove secretly being granted Hungarian citizenship, which was against the law in Ukraine.Ever since, diplomatic relations between Hungary and Ukraine have been icy. The visit to Kyiv by Hungarian President Katalin Novak, a loyal Orban supporter, at the end of November is unlikely to have changed this.
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