Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday said he would seek to form a political alliance to stop the European Union pulling away from Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe EU gets further away from Russia every day. That\u2019s not only bad for Hungary, but for the entire EU,\u201d Orban told Hungarian ambassadors in Budapest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will have to seek the company of those EU member states who are interested in slowing and stopping this separation process,\u201d he added, without naming any specific countries.<\/p>\n
Ties between the West and Russia have hit a post-Cold War low over the crisis in Ukraine, with the European Union and Washington slapping massive sanctions on Moscow over its perceived support for separatists.<\/p>\n
Russia hit back with sanctions of its own, banning nearly all food imports from the EU and United States.<\/p>\n
Orban, who has been criticised for steering Hungary away from Europe and towards Russia, insisted Monday that the country\u2019s Western alliances were \u201cnot in doubt\u201d. But he again warned that isolating Russia could hurt Europe\u2019s competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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