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No one should negotiate with Putin

by AI | 18.Jul 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Ukraine is supported and Hungary is criticized in the first resolution of the new EU Parliament. All Swedes voted in favor.

The European Parliament in Strasbourg has opened. Photo: FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP

Ukraine is supported and Hungary is criticized in the new EU Parliament’s first resolution.

The EU must continue its support for Ukraine, “as long as it takes,” the statement approved on Wednesday by a wide margin reads: 495 votes in favor, 137 against, and 47 abstentions.

All 21 Swedish members voted yes.

The resolution calls for continued sanctions against Russia and Belarus and future NATO membership for Ukraine. Moreover, it condemns both Russia’s recent attack on a children’s hospital in Kyiv and the “peace trip” that Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán made to Moscow in early July.

“No one should negotiate with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,” said Polish conservative member Andrej Halicki in the debate preceding the vote.

The resolution is a clear indication that the EU Parliament still has a predominantly Ukraine-friendly majority, despite the increase in strength of far-right and pro-Russia party groups.

Viktor Orbán is supported only by the far-right.

(July 17)