Hungary’s energy supply is at stake 

Yesterday, an important battle started in Brussels. Hungary’s energy supply is at stake, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday. 

“What is at stake is no less than whether we will succeed in protecting Hungarian households against the Brussels bureaucrats and Zelenskyy’s joint plan which would put Hungary’s crude oil and natural gas supply in jeopardy and would increase the Hungarian people’s household energy costs sky-high,” the Prime Minister said. 

“What is this whole thing about? While the prices of crude oil and natural gas are climbing higher and higher on the world market due to the war that broke out in the Middle East, it’s as if Brussels wanted to aggravate the situation. They want to ban Russian energy carriers from the territory of the European Union at any cost,” his post reads. 

According to Mr Orbán, it is impossible to determine, using common sense, what would happen next if this plan were realised. Due to the flawed sanctions policy, Europe has access to energy at much higher prices than its competitors already at present. If Brussels definitively bans Russian sources, it means that they cut off the most important pipelines that secure Hungary’s crude oil and natural gas supply. This – in the middle of a war – is incredibly dangerous, he added. 

“To do this now, in the shadow of the war that is being waged in the Middle East, is madness. Why are they doing it nonetheless? They’re doing it because the Brussels bureaucrats don’t care about the European people’s interests. The Brussels bureaucrats dread the possibility that the war might end at some point. And when it does, they will have to draw the balance of what they have achieved with the enormous amounts of weapons and money they sent to the war. They’re fighting for their political survival, and so they don’t care if in consequence of their decisions, the energy costs of Hungarian households spiral out of control,” the Prime Minister wrote. 

In his post, Mr Orbán laid down: “We will not allow anyone to make us pay for yet another act of foolishness on the part of Brussels. Therefore, yesterday, together with the Slovaks, we prevented the adoption of a decision which would have given the Commission’s proposals the green light.” 

“Brussels and its allies are on the Ukrainians’ side, we are on the Hungarians’ side,” the Prime Minister wrote, concluding his post.