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The EU has already suffered defeat regardless of the outcome on the battlefield, the parliament speaker insists<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EU has suffered severe political and economic damage from its handling of the situation in Ukraine, and can already be declared the loser in the conflict, the speaker of Hungary’s National Assembly claimed on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Laszlo Kover, who is a member of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, accused Brussels of failing to prevent the conflict through political means, with the result that it’s “unable to restore peace diplomatically.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Under external pressure, the EU is acting against its most basic economic interests and should already be considered a loser, regardless of which of the parties directly involved in fighting will declare itself the winner,”<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

Powers outside Europe are trying to condemn the bloc’s members to “military vulnerability, political subjugation, economic and energy incapacity, financial indebtedness and social disintegration,<\/em>” with Brussels helping them to achieve this goal, the parliament speaker claimed.<\/p>\n

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