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Europe 'shot itself in the foot' with Russia sanctions: Hungary PM

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The European Union has shot itself in the foot economically with the sanctions its has imposed on Russia over Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, calling for a rethink of policy. "The sanctions policy pursued by the West, that is, ourselves, a necessary consequence of which has been what the Russians are doing, causes more harm to us than to Russia," Orban said in a radio interview. "In politics, this is called shooting oneself in the foot." (Reporting by Gergely Szakacs, editing by John Stonestreet) Read More http://ift.tt/1uVTvfG

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