> 'We could be dragged into war': Hungary, Slovakia warn against changes to EU unanimity rule / 43TR7ZP
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'We could be dragged into war': Hungary, Slovakia warn against changes to EU unanimity rule / 43TR7ZP
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The leaders of Hungary an Slovakia warn the European Union against changing the bloc's unanimity rule, after some diplomats proposed the measure to circumvent Budapest's opposition to Ukraine's membership bid. "If unanimity were not required on foreign policy issues," says Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, "that is, if some Member States were unable to represent their interests, we could be dragged into a war". Orban and Slovak counterpart Robert Fico are the EU's most Moscow-friendly leaders and often find themselves at odds with other members on the issue of Ukraine. "The developments we are currently seeing in the European Union are not the most favourable," Fico says during a joint press conference in Bratislava. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES