Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban commented on Friday for the national radio station Kossuth on the current situation and consequences of the Western sanctions against Moscow, saying that his previous assumptions on their effect have been confirmed now as the sanctions policy did not justify the initial hopes of the European Union.
''I must say, at first I thought we just shot ourselves in the foot, but now it seems that the European economy has shot itself in the lungs and therefore it is suffocating everywhere now,'' Orban explained.
Previously, the Hungarian prime minister claimed that the ban on Russian energy will destroy the bloc's economy, with the country announcing a state of emergency two days ago due to the situation on the energy market.
