It was remarkable how little attention EU foreign ministers paid on Monday, March 16, to the bloc’s pending €90 billion loan for Ukraine, which remains blocked by Viktor Orbán. The agreement to lend Kyiv the money was trumpeted as a rabbit-out-of-the-hat success at the December leaders’ summit. Yet, because of Hungary’s veto, the EU faces the absurd situation of emerging from this week’s summit no closer to addressing Ukraine’s dire financial needs than it was before Christmas. JOIN US ON