EU officials are drawing up fallback measures including the use of an 81-year-old law involving the Belgian king to safeguard the bloc’s sanctions against Russia after Hungary threatened to veto their renewal.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the bloc’s other 26 leaders in December that he could block this month’s rollover of EU sanctions against Russia, which requires unanimous approval — a move that would lead to the expiry of the measures on January 31.
Orbán said he was awaiting the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president on Monday. If Trump eases US sanctions on Moscow, Orbán said he would insist that the EU follows suit.
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