LONDON, August 15./ITAR-TASS/. The European Union has shot itself in the foot economically with the sanctions it has imposed on Russia in the Ukraine crisis, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, calling on the EU to rethink its 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 was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. “In politics, this is called shooting oneself in the foot”.