{"id":430939,"date":"2025-06-26T20:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/26\/euco-ucraina-sanzioni-ungheria-slovacchia\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:01:39","slug":"eu-27-minus-one-renews-support-for-ukraine-keeps-slovakia-in-line-on-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/26\/eu-27-minus-one-renews-support-for-ukraine-keeps-slovakia-in-line-on-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-27 minus one renews support for Ukraine, keeps Slovakia in line on sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Again, regarding\u00a0Ukraine, the Twenty-seven become Twenty-six<\/strong>. It is a “strategic disagreement<\/strong>” with Hungary’s<\/strong>\u00a0Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>, EU sources reiterate. The strongman from Budapest has long put his foot down on opening the negotiating clusters to bring Kyiv into the twelve-star club<\/strong>. That requires unanimity, so the path to membership is at a standstill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The problem is war<\/strong>,” reiterated the Hungarian Prime Minister this morning (26 June), arriving for the European Council <\/a>in Brussels. “If we integrate Ukraine into the EU, we would also integrate the war<\/strong>,” he reasoned. And if the war ended? Orb\u00e1n doesn’t even want to think about it: “There is no ceasefire<\/strong>,” he cuts it short, so there is no point in fantasizing about it. And he boasts the result of what he calls a “referendum”\u00a0<\/strong>(actually a questionnaire sent out to citizens, with no legal value) on Kyiv’s entry into the European club<\/strong>: of the just over 2 million responses, 95 percent were against<\/strong>, he says.<\/p>\n

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\u274c The Hungarian people have spoken: 95% said NO to dragging Ukraine into the EU! \u274c<\/p>\n

They said NO to war, NO to economic ruin, and NO to Brussels\u2019 delusions. With over 2 million votes cast, we\u2019re taking our people\u2019s mandate for peace and common sense to Brussels.\u00a0–\u00a0 pic.twitter.com\/PaD0jQqBfy<\/a>\u00a0–Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u00a0(@PM_ViktorOrban)\u00a0<\/span>June 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the Twenty-Seven approved extremely slim conclusions<\/strong>, which refer to a separate document approved by\u00a026 member states<\/strong> to renew their support for the aggrieved country<\/strong>. As usual, there is support for achieving an unconditional and immediate truce<\/strong> and a just and lasting peace<\/strong>, for continuing to provide\u00a0military aid<\/strong> to Kyiv, and for maintaining\u00a0pressure on Vladimir Putin<\/strong>‘s Russia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Before the discussion, the heads of state and government had an online\u00a0exchange with Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong>. The Ukrainian president was supposed to attend the summit in person, but the heavy Russian bombing forced him to stay at home<\/strong>. The dramatic situation in Kyiv then led to\u00a0a further change in the\u00a0schedule<\/strong> before the start of the summit, causing the agenda item to shift from the morning to the afternoon.<\/p>\n

The debate between the leaders was rather swift, but the hurdle\u00a0that created some problems around the table was the sanctions against Moscow<\/strong>. The Commission has been working on<\/a> the 18th package<\/strong>, which aims\u00a0to hit, in particular, the Federation’s energy exports<\/strong> and its shadow fleet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (left) meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, 22 December, 2024 (photo: Gavriil Grigorov\/Afp via Sputnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some details are still being ironed out, starting with the lowering of the ceiling on Moscow’s crude oil price<\/strong> from the current $60 to $45 per barrel — a<\/strong> measure that, in reality, should have been decided at the G7<\/strong>, which\u00a0originally set the\u00a0oil price cap<\/i>.<\/p>\n

It is not entirely clear what will happen to\u00a0that “detail.”\u00a0Still,\u00a0for now, the president of the European Council, Ant\u00f3nio Costa<\/strong>, has managed to circumvent\u00a0the potential veto<\/strong> of Slovak prime minister Robert Fico<\/strong> (concerned about the stop to Russian gas inflows<\/strong>) by inserting a generic mention to the inclusion<\/strong>, in the next round of sanctions, of “measures aimed at\u00a0further hitting the energy revenues<\/strong>” of the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

In the end, everyone was happy<\/strong>: Costa brought home the unity of the “27 minus one”<\/strong> (if one can speak of unity), the Bratislava premier did not allow himself to be cornered<\/strong> by his counterparts, and Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> kept an open window to continue fine-tuning\u00a0the details\u00a0of sanctions<\/strong> on Moscow’s oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Viktor Orb\u00e1n’s Hungary pulls out, especially on the accession dossier. Bratislava Prime Minister Robert Fico saves face by securing a vague wording that does not explicitly include gas, while the Commission continues to work on the crude oil price ceiling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":430936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[31466,27335,31467,26359,30669],"class_list":["post-430939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-18-packet-sanctions-en","tag-council-en","tag-price-cap-petrolio-en","tag-robert-fico-en","tag-viktor-orban-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430998,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430939\/revisions\/430998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}