Orban Offered to Be 'Mouse' Helping Russian 'Lion' in Putin Call

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The country also continues to import Russian energy while the EU phases it out.
49% : That report followed one in the Washington PostBloomberg Terminal, citing a European security official, that Szijjarto would regularly brief Lavrov on private discussions in Brussels between EU foreign ministers.
47% : The relationship between Orban's government and the Kremlin is coming under increasing scrutiny as Hungarians prepare to vote in an election this weekend, with opinion polls indicating that Putin's closest ally in the European Union could be ousted after 16 years.
46% : Some European leaders hit out at Hungary last week after a consortium of investigative news outlets, including The Insider and VSquare, published a leaked recording of a call between Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, involving removing a Russian billionaire's sister from the EU's sanctions list.
34% : Szijjarto dismissed the story as the work of foreign intelligence services tapping his calls and said that it's no secret that he opposes the EU's sanctions policy.

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