The 27 member countries of the European Union have agreed on an aid program of 50 billion euros for Ukraine. Viktor Orban, alone among the Twenty-Seven to have maintained close ties with Moscow after the launch of the invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago, aroused the anger and exasperation of his counterparts meeting in December last by opposing this essential financial support for Kiev.

“We are not tired of Ukraine, we are tired of Orban’s ‘strange and selfish game’, declared Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.