Scholz Is Confident Orban Will Approve Sweden's NATO Bid

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that he’s confident that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will cease to block Sweden’s accession to NATO. He also sounded confident that Orban will wave through a €50 billion ($54.5 billion) support package for Ukraine at an extraordinary EU summit next week.

“I expect that we will have all the necessary decisions together very soon,” Scholz said before a meeting with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in Berlin on Wednesday evening. “That’s a good signal because it will also strengthen our common military alliance.”