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SCHOLZ PROPOSED ORBÁN LEAVE ROOM DURING UKRAINE DECISION
Several hours into difficult discussions on opening accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was holding up with his veto, it was German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who came up with the solution.
Scholz told Orbán in front of the other leaders that if he really wasn’t willing to agree, he could leave the room so the EU leaders could take an unanimous decision on enlargement in his absence, two officials briefed on the talks said.
Yet that proposal didn’t come spontaneously but had instead been agreed in previous discussions, one of the officials said. A third official said that Orbán was “momentarily absent from the room in a pre-agreed and constructive manner.”
Scholz doing the old...
NEHAMMER MISSES KEY SANCTIONS DISCUSSION
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who had been holding up a decision on the 12th package of sanctions against Russia, was not in the room when leaders agreed to the sanctions, three European diplomats told POLITICO.
It was a coincidence, the diplomats said, as Nehammer had left the room to speak with Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen over Romanian and Bulgarian accession to the free-travel area of Schengen.
The start of the written procedure on the sanctions package is still unclear.
His absence was ironic given that earlier in the day, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán left the leaders’ room when they decided to open accession talks for Ukraine, unblocking the EU decision.
Lol. I'm loving this trend of "coincidentally wasn't in the room at the time" to get around assholes.
