By Tamas Csonka in Budapest Hungary secured a complete exemption from EU sanctions on Russia for the construction of new blocks at the Paks nuclear power plant (NPP), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said during a break in a meeting of his EU peers in Luxembourg on June 24. Szijjarto also complained about the way the EU is planning to circumvent Hungary’s veto on using profit from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. The EU Foreign Affairs Council approved the 14th package of sanctions against Russia on Monday, 24 June, but Hungary received an exemption for the €12bn pro…