However, he said, there is still a battle to be won to convince the countries of the EU further from the borders of Russia to get on board with this idea. Seven members of the block do not meet the target of expenses of two percent of the gross domestic product.
“For the public, yes, people generally tend to prioritize the news that is closer to you, for example during the migration crisis, people in the south were more active and involved to talk about it, but northern people did not understand at that time. At the moment, we have a situation like this kind of sharing of neighboring Russia.”
Michal, whose country shares a border with Russia and only acquired the independence of the Soviet Union in 1991, said that it “would welcome and probably support” an initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron so that European nations share their nuclear umbrella in the midst of uncertainty on American security guarantees.
After a discussion of 10 a.m. Thursday, EU leaders approved a set of measures designed to stimulate defense expenses across the block. However, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán withdrew his country’s support for an unanimous joint declaration intended to increase the support of Ukraine after Trump announced a freeze on military aid in the country.
Answering a political question, Orbán said that Trump’s policy “in this regard is more than just.”
He refused to comment whether his own country would stimulate spending far beyond his 2% of the gross objective of the domestic product, after having said that last year an increase “would draw on the Hungarian economy in the lungs”.
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