At the EU summit in Brussels, foreign‑policy chief Kaja Kallas urged the heads of state and government to display “political courage” in order to unlock the €90 billion credit line for Ukraine. She told the gathering that the aid‑loan package is the central issue at hand and that it is time to show concrete support for Ukraine, noting the link between the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine and how Russia benefits from the former.

Kallas singled out Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had approved the credit in December but later retracted his commitment. She described this reversal as a lack of trustworthiness and warned that “people during election times are not particularly rational” referring to Hungary’s parliamentary election scheduled for 12 April.