Europe

With Budapest going head-to-head against Kyiv over the fate of the Druzhba oil pipeline, Brussels is looking for a way out of the spiralling crisis – sooner rather than later. “Something has to give,” as one EU official put it. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has blocked a critical €90 billion loan to Ukraine over what he claims is a deliberate, politically-driven effort to disrupt the transit of cheap Russian oil by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Orbán, in the midst of a brutal election campaign, has turned the damaged pipeline into a matter of national sovereignty, so far refusing to budge.…

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