European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that the European Union EU will find ways to pay out the promised 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine despite Hungary’s ongoing resistance. Leyen was speaking to reporters after a summit in Brussels today, where EU leaders failed to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to lift his blockade on the vital EU loan to Ukraine. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called Orban’s veto an unprecedented act of serious disloyalty. The Hungarian Prime Minister has resisted requests by other European leaders to lift his blockade on the EU loan to Ukraine. Hungary depends on Russian energy, and Mr Orbán has accused Ukraine of disrupting these energy supplies by failing to repair a Soviet-era pipeline called ‘Druzhba’. This pipeline carries Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia through Ukraine.
