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Hungary, Oligarch Mikhail Friedman, if the list is not removed from the list, hinders the renewal of the EU’s approximately 2000 sanctions.
The commands of travel restrictions and assets and assets and assets and assets and assets and business pyrons, the commands applied to politicians and businessmen that provide all 27 EU capital to roll in Ukraine will end on Saturday.
Before going to London before leaving London, Hungary’s ambassador to the EU demanded that Budapest was released from the list that allows Budapest all other sanctions.
The EU ambassadors meet the next few days of negotiations in Brussels on Thursday. Staundit allies in Kiev’s Baltic region, especially the United States, is different from any weakening of EU’s restrictions against Moscow.
Hungary, the EU’s most alert was the most important pro-Russian member by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, repeatedly repeated the unit measures against Moscow or overcome the water. According to three officials, the efforts to remove Friedman’s Friedman are supported by Luxembourg.
Last year, Friedman London’s investment company has filed a lawsuit against Luxembourg, which is interested in the negligence, is looking for $ 15.8 billion for sanctions.
Fried, who lost his fortune in Russia in the 1990s, Friedman, who lost his fortune in the 1990s, was first protected from the preserved criticism of President Vladimir Putin and returned to Moscow last October.
Friedman refused to comment.
Hungary first includes eight names and includes eight names, including PETT AVEN, including PETT AVEN for a long time. However, Budapest threw some of these requirements, while insisting the exclusion of three officials and Friedman.
Friedman and AVEN, in April 2024, the EU won a lawsuit in the General Court of the EU, which was incorrect to add the EU to the list in 2022. The court said that this did not provide enough evidence of its close relations.
The victory of the oligarchs was the highest profile blow to the EU sanctions against the EU since the occupation.
However, in 2023, they remain in the decision of the second EU sanctions in Russia. Latvia complained about the first decision in the grace of the oligarch, Friedman and AVEN have difficulty in the second decision.
Last year, Friedman and AVEN, Russia’s largest private loan, Russia’s largest private loans and sold their stakes in long-term partners Andrei Kosogov.
The oligarchs, who sell companies, were no longer the “leading businessmen” did not respond to the remaining criteria for the EU sanctions against them. . . The Kremlin is in the economic sector that provides an important source of income.
Representatives for the Governments of Hungary and Luxembourg did not respond immediately to the surveys for comment.
In addition, the EU, including the Russian economy, including 200 billion eurovies, including sovereign assets, will be extended in July.
Additional report by Andy borders in Brussels and Marton Dunai in Budapest
