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Jorge Liboreiro

Magyar calls on Orbán to lift veto on €90bn Ukraine loan before leaving office

Péter Magyar, the winner of the Hungarian elections and the country's incoming prime minister, has called on Viktor Orbán to lift his controversial veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine before vacating his office in May.

The financial scheme was agreed by the 27 leaders of the European Union in December, but Orbán used his veto in mid-February to block the legal procedure over an unrelated dispute with Kyiv involving the Druzhba pipeline, which carries low-cost Russian oil.

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