At one moment a few months ago, the very tense relationship between Hungary and Ukraine seemed to improve slightly when the Hungarian Foreign Ministry’s State Secretary for Parliament Relations Magyar Levente said, after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, that “I see a serious chance to leave this difficult period behind.”
The optimism only lasted for a day. He was contradicted by his boss, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó just 24 hours later, when he reiterated that Hungary would stand in the way of Ukrainian Euro-Atlantic integration efforts until Ukraine remedies a problematic new education law. Mr Szijjártó called news hailing progress …read more
Source: Emerging Europe
