(ANSA) - BELGRADE, DEC 2 - Hungary "is not in favor of the EU financing the functioning of the Ukrainian state through joint loans" and the Hungarian government"believes that Member States should support this objective via bilateral agreements," the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Kossuth Rádió today. "It would have tragic consequences for Hungary if the European Union were to extend sanctions against Russia to gas and nuclear energy, and we should therefore be exempt from such a decision," Orban added. (ANSA).