Hungary is also blackmailing Bulgaria: it threatens not to let it into the Schengen zone because of Russian gas.

Hungary demands Bulgaria to make concessions/Collage 24 Channel

Hungary is blackmailing not only Ukraine. She also began to put pressure on Bulgaria. He threatens that he will not allow the state into the Schengen zone.

As noted in the publication, Hungary will veto Bulgaria’s entry into the European visa-free Schengen zone. Budapest is ready to take such a step, if Sofia does not make concessions.

Orban continues to play along with the Kremlin

So, Budapest demands that Sofia cancel the transit tax on Russian gas. The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this on Saturday, December 16.

It is known that the threat of a veto arose after 26 EU member states, except Hungary, agreed on December 14 to begin negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. Orbán managed to get around restrictions by asking him to leave the meeting room before the vote.

The Hungarian Foreign Ministry, citing head Peter Szijjártó, said that the country had made it clear to Bulgaria that will veto her entry. And it will do this if the corresponding tax on the main import route of Hungarian gas remains in force. Actually, the corresponding tax, they complain in Budapest, will make the cost of gas higher by 20%. By the way, in Sofia they emphasize that complaints in this regard should be addressed to Gazprom “

In Budapest they are offended by the news about Orbán’s “coffee culture”

Please note that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, before the start of voting on the start of negotiations between Ukraine and the EU, invited Viktor Orban to leave the hall. Soon in Budapest they called the media that wrote about this “frivolous”.

It’s interesting that Politico was the first to talk about this. Later, Olaf Scholz confirmed the coffee story with Orban. And on the air of the podcast of the Hungarian portal Mandiner, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto commented on the situation.

< p>He did not confirm the information about Viktor Orbán’s coffee drinking. But he said that Politico, which reported about it, he is convinced, is a frivolous tabloid that should not even be mentioned worth it.

I recommend that in serious places like this podcast, frivolous tabloids like Politico should not even be mentioned, Szijjarto said.

Peter Szijjarto also believes that the decision to start negotiations with Ukraine supposedly will not have practical application.