The EU flag. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 17Thomas Kuryanovich, a journalist for the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, told the Hungarian radio station Kossuth that after talking with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, he began to understand much better why he considers the EU sanctions against Russia a mistake, Blikk reports. Kuryanovich noted that his discussion with Orban was interesting and informative, emphasizing that as a result he better understood the position of the Hungarians and the Hungarian government.Orban called the condition for ending the conflict in UkraineAccording to the journalist, «now he sees much more clearly the criteria by which Viktor Orban considers the European Union sanctions against Russia wrong.» Last week, Orban, in an interview with German media, including the Berliner Zeitung, criticized the EU sanctions policy. urging them to be reconsidered and warned against the EU falling into energy dependence on the US. At the end of September, he said that the country was the first in Europe to launch national consultations to find out the opinion of citizens on EU sanctions against Russia. Orban called on all citizens of the country to express their opinion during the national consultation and thus «put an end» to the increase in energy prices caused by sanctions «imposed by Brussels on EU countries.» According to him, prices in Europe would fall by half in a few days if the EU changed the sanctions policy. The West increased sanctions pressure on Russia over Ukraine, which led to an increase in prices for electricity, fuel and food in Europe and the United States. President Vladimir Putin has said in the past that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for the West, and sanctions have dealt a severe blow to the entire global economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people.
