#Orban's #election #campaign strategy: #blackmail EU, Ukraine over #Russian #oil & hope for a fight
#Hungarian PM Orban was feeling adventurous, sending 2 letters, 1 to #Brussels, another to #Kyiv, with set of demands
Intended target audience were NOT #EU & #Ukrainian officials, but #domestic population soon heading to the polls
Orban’s ominous post is not open letter to foreign head of state, but a campaign message targeting a domestic audience

Orban's election campaign strategy — blackmail EU, Ukraine over Russian oil and hope for a fight
On Feb. 26, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was feeling adventurous, sending two letters — one to Brussels, another one to Kyiv — with a set of demands. The intended target audience for both, however, were not EU and Ukrainian officials, but the domestic population soon heading to the polls. "Viktor Orban's ominous post is not an open letter to a foreign head of state, but rather a campaign message targeting a domestic audience," Daniel Hegedüs, deputy director at the Institute for Europ