The Lithuanian foreign minister accuses Hungary of opposing everything that “Europe stands for”
Hungary’s stance on Ukraine suggests that it is opposed to European values, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis claimed on Monday while addressing an EU foreign ministers’ event.
Hungary actively opposes the EU’s continued military and financial support to Ukraine, and has objected to any negotiations on fast-tracking its potential accession to the bloc.
“The only way I can read the Hungarian position, not just on Ukraine, but on many other issues, is that they are against Europe and everything that Europe stands for,” Landsbergis said, describing a “clash of ideologies” in the EU between those who want the union to be strong and those who don’t want it to exist at all.
The minister warned that unless a “rational solution” to the issue is found, “dark times can lie ahead.”
Landsbergis’s comments came after European…