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| Sergey Lavrov to visit Budapest |
| Budapest, 26.05.2016 |
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| Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is to visit Budapest this Wednesday. According to Hungary’s pro-government daily Magyar Idők, Lavrov will discuss bilateral issues and European Union-Russia relations with his Hungarian counterparts.
Also on the agenda is a discussion about potential cooperation between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union, and the election of a United Nations Secretary-General to succeed Ban Ki-moon, whose term will end on December 31.
Index.hu reports that, according to a statement released by Russia’s Foreign Ministry, Russia-Hungary relations are rooted on mutual understanding, and both countries’ share a very close – if not the same – position on very pressing issues.
Lavrov may also discuss the Paks 2 nuclear plant agreement with Hungarian government officials. Crippling sanctions against Russia and an EU inquiry into the legality of Hungary’s Paks 2 deal with Russia have thus far thwarted any progress in the EUR 12 billion extension project financed by a Russian state-owned bank.
Hungary-Russia relations have certainly grown stronger under the second and third Orbán governments since 2010. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet every year and sing each other’s praises — all against the backdrop of deteriorating US-Hungary relations.
Putin’s relationship with Orbán has set off alarm bells in both the European Union and United States.
As András Simonyi, managing director at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, pointed out in 2015, “Putin’s goal is to split the alliance and to split Europe. Hungary should not be part of this game. Hungary should not be one of the countries that is assisting in the division of Europe.”
Another angle to this story is Russia’s increased influence in Central and Eastern Europe.
According to foreign policy experts Edit Zgut and Botond Feledy, Hungary’s friendly relations with Russia – at a time when both the EU and United States have taken a hardline value-based stance against Russian aggression in Ukraine – are the result of very close ties between the upper echelons of the two countries’ political elite. This may offer some explanation for Hungary’s divergence from the European Union’s tough approach to Russia since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine.
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