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Hungary’s Orban warns ‘no compromise’ yet on EU Russia oil ban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned Monday as he arrived at a summit of EU leaders that the bloc has yet to come up with a compromise that could see him back an embargo on Russian oil.

European diplomats have drafted a statement proposing that Hungary receive a temporary exemption from the ban, and hope it will be adopted at the two-day Brussels meeting.

But Orban told reporters: “There is no agreement at all.”

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