Europe wants to isolate Orbán

European diplomats want to isolate Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán because of his resistance to the European Union's plan to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, according to the American newspaper Politico.

,,Our goal is to get enough support from several states to isolate the regime in Budapest’’, said an EU diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Orbán previously said during a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump that his country's economy would be ,,on its knees’’ if it refused Russian energy supplies.

Earlier, on September 23 this year, Trump suggested that Hungary could indeed stop buying Russian oil. He noted that he maintains close friendly relations with the Hungarian prime minister, with whom he could discuss such a possibility in more detail.

,,I haven’t touched on this subject enough, but I feel that if I were more involved, I could influence him (Orbán)’’, the American leader said.

At the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, Trump declared that the Russian economy is in a ,,catastrophic state’’ due to the war in Ukraine, taking a rather critical attitude towards the Kremlin.

However, Robert Agee, head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, reported that American companies have asked Trump to lift some sanctions against Moscow. He noted that the sanctions are significantly affecting foreign companies that continue to operate in Russia, while the country's economy has partially adapted to the restrictions.