BUDAPEST, June 3Hungary did not support increasing tariffs on exports of products from the Russian Federation and Belarus, because Russia could respond in multiple amounts, and this would harm Hungarian businesses that continue to operate in the country, said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Peter Szijjártó.
Earlier, the EU approved a proposal to increase the cost of import duties for agricultural products from the Russian Federation and Belarus to 50%; Hungary was the only one to abstain from voting. 
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«A lot of Hungarian agricultural and food industry enterprises continue to have very serious activities in Russia. Many receive a significant part of their income from Russian exports or from activities there. And if Europe now introduces punitive duties in the field of agriculture, Russia will react , we know, will react many times over,” Szijjártó said at a press conference broadcast by M1 TV channel.
According to him, Hungary abstained from voting because in the event of a Russian response, “the activities of Hungarian companies would have been significantly complicated or would have become impossible.”