Hungary is looking to join forces with Czechia and Slovakia to form a Ukraine-skeptic alliance in the EU.

Axar.az informs this was stated by a top political adviser to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Politico.

Orbán is hoping to team up with Andrej Babiš, whose right-wing populist party won Czechia’s recent parliamentary election, as well as Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to align positions ahead of meetings of EU leaders, including holding pre-summit huddles, the aide said.

While a firm political alliance remains some way off, the formation could significantly impede the EU’s efforts to support Ukraine financially and militarily.

“I think it will come — and be more and more visible,” said the prime minister’s political director, Balázs Orbán, when asked about the potential for a Ukraine-skeptic alliance to start acting as a bloc in the European Council.

“It worked very well during the migration crisis. That’s how we could resist,” he said of the so-called Visegrad 4 group made up of Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland at a time when the Euroskeptic Law and Justice Party was in power in Warsaw following 2015.

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