US may announce sanctions against Hungarian "influential persons", - mass media
The United States may soon announce sanctions against Hungarian "influential citizens" amid a significant deterioration in bilateral relations and criticism of the actions of Viktor Orbn’s Hungarian government.
As Censor.NET informs with reference to the Euro Integration, the Hungarian publication 444.hu writes about it.
Sources note that the announcement of sanctions can be made as early as Wednesday, April 12, because the press conference of the US Ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, is scheduled for that day. The embassy did not announce what the diplomat would talk about.
The publication writes that the situation of 2014, when the USA banned the entry of eight current and former Hungarian officials, may be repeated against the backdrop of deteriorating relations between Washington and Budapest.
Also, according to journalists, diplomatic conflicts between the United States and Hungary have been ongoing in recent months, primarily related to attacks on the American ambassador. For example, in early February, Pressman sharply criticized the Hungarian government, which talks about promoting peace, but continues to express views supported by Putin.
And recently, he pointed to the double standards of Orbán, who publicly supported Donald Trump on Twitter, who was indicted in the United States.
The Hungarian prime minister, in his turn in his address to the nation in February, called Pressman the pressman and joked that the next ambassador in Budapest would not be named Puccini (a hint of the coup).
Pressman himself said in an interview with the Népszava portal at the beginning of April that his position reflects the position of the American government, and the campaign against him in the Hungarian media, according to Washington, was authorized by the Hungarian government.
