Viktor Orban
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So just start with a very narrow Hungarian approach. Because of the sanctions and the war, we are losing every year around 7 billion euros. Hungary is a small country, can you imagine? Just Hungary? Just Hungary, just Hungary, just Hungary. So altogether, we don't know the figures exactly, but Europe spent close to 200 billion euro, which is out of the European economy. So it's a sum.
So just start with a very narrow Hungarian approach. Because of the sanctions and the war, we are losing every year around 7 billion euros. Hungary is a small country, can you imagine? Just Hungary? Just Hungary, just Hungary, just Hungary. So altogether, we don't know the figures exactly, but Europe spent close to 200 billion euro, which is out of the European economy. So it's a sum.
That's first. Second, we isolated ourselves from the Russian economy, including the energy, which will have a long-term impact on us as well, as I said, losing our working, well-functioning economic strategy as a basis of the European economy. The third one is the migrants. I mean, they are not migrants, they are really refugees. So the Ukrainians left the country.
That's first. Second, we isolated ourselves from the Russian economy, including the energy, which will have a long-term impact on us as well, as I said, losing our working, well-functioning economic strategy as a basis of the European economy. The third one is the migrants. I mean, they are not migrants, they are really refugees. So the Ukrainians left the country.
That's first. Second, we isolated ourselves from the Russian economy, including the energy, which will have a long-term impact on us as well, as I said, losing our working, well-functioning economic strategy as a basis of the European economy. The third one is the migrants. I mean, they are not migrants, they are really refugees. So the Ukrainians left the country.
Nobody knows exactly how many, but tens of millions. So we are speaking about a country which one fifth or one fourth of the territory is occupied by Russia. The industrial area is totally destroyed and the people are just escaping. So it's really a tragedy. And if President Trump is not able to find a solution, That war could become easily an Afghanistan for the European Union.
Nobody knows exactly how many, but tens of millions. So we are speaking about a country which one fifth or one fourth of the territory is occupied by Russia. The industrial area is totally destroyed and the people are just escaping. So it's really a tragedy. And if President Trump is not able to find a solution, That war could become easily an Afghanistan for the European Union.
Nobody knows exactly how many, but tens of millions. So we are speaking about a country which one fifth or one fourth of the territory is occupied by Russia. The industrial area is totally destroyed and the people are just escaping. So it's really a tragedy. And if President Trump is not able to find a solution, That war could become easily an Afghanistan for the European Union.
Endless war, endless conflict, no way out of the conflict, eating up energy, human lives, money, everything, destroying the frame of normal life for the European Union. So we are in a serious danger. The difficulty is, and that's not my challenge, but it's a challenge to President Trump, how to convince the Russians to stop the war while the Russians are basically winning.
Endless war, endless conflict, no way out of the conflict, eating up energy, human lives, money, everything, destroying the frame of normal life for the European Union. So we are in a serious danger. The difficulty is, and that's not my challenge, but it's a challenge to President Trump, how to convince the Russians to stop the war while the Russians are basically winning.
Endless war, endless conflict, no way out of the conflict, eating up energy, human lives, money, everything, destroying the frame of normal life for the European Union. So we are in a serious danger. The difficulty is, and that's not my challenge, but it's a challenge to President Trump, how to convince the Russians to stop the war while the Russians are basically winning.
This is the big question. Luckily enough, it's not my job to find an answer again. But I'm convinced that if you try to find a solution just directly on the war between Russia and Ukraine, you will never find a solution.
This is the big question. Luckily enough, it's not my job to find an answer again. But I'm convinced that if you try to find a solution just directly on the war between Russia and Ukraine, you will never find a solution.
This is the big question. Luckily enough, it's not my job to find an answer again. But I'm convinced that if you try to find a solution just directly on the war between Russia and Ukraine, you will never find a solution.
So we should make a bigger basket to incorporate the issue of reintegration of Russia into the international security order, to reintegrate Russia into the European security system, and to find a way of economic cooperation, basically energy. Plus Ukraine. If you make that kind of bigger basket, probably there is a chance for the deal.
So we should make a bigger basket to incorporate the issue of reintegration of Russia into the international security order, to reintegrate Russia into the European security system, and to find a way of economic cooperation, basically energy. Plus Ukraine. If you make that kind of bigger basket, probably there is a chance for the deal.
So we should make a bigger basket to incorporate the issue of reintegration of Russia into the international security order, to reintegrate Russia into the European security system, and to find a way of economic cooperation, basically energy. Plus Ukraine. If you make that kind of bigger basket, probably there is a chance for the deal.
If it's narrowly, directly concentrating just Ukraine and Russia, it's a real challenge, intellectually and politically, to any president of the United States. But it's not my job again.
If it's narrowly, directly concentrating just Ukraine and Russia, it's a real challenge, intellectually and politically, to any president of the United States. But it's not my job again.
If it's narrowly, directly concentrating just Ukraine and Russia, it's a real challenge, intellectually and politically, to any president of the United States. But it's not my job again.