Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was this week just the latest European leader to publicly speak in defence of the Russian-led South Stream project. This marks a growing vocal support from national levels for the proposed gas pipeline that would circumvent Ukraine. These developments also continue to clash with the European Commission’s position, which is emphasising a diversification of suppliers, not routes, and which would like to continue to see Ukraine as a transit country.
Speaking in Serbia, on 1…