“If sanctions were lifted, prices would immediately fall by half, inflation would also fall.

Without the sanctions, the European economy would have recovered and could have avoided the impending recession, ”Magyar Nemzet quoted Orban as saying.

According to him, the sanctions are the cause of the current economic problems and the energy crisis.

He noted that sanctions do Europe more harm than Russia.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Western countries did Russia a favor by imposing sanctions, pushing it to develop its own intellectual product.