Bangladesh, Dec. 19 -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has once again positioned himself as one of the European Unions most outspoken critics of the blocs approach to the Ukraine conflict, sharply condemning a newly approved €90 billion interest-free loan package for Kiev. While acknowledging that the final agreement avoided what he sees as an even more dangerous precedent-seizing frozen Russian assets-Orban warned that the EUs decision nonetheless risks deepening Europes entanglement in a prolonged and escalating war.

Speaking shortly after EU leaders finalized the joint borrowing plan, Orban described the initiative as fundamentally flawed, economically reckless, and politically destabilizing. According to the Hungarian lea...