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Banning Russian gas and oil imports would not help Ukraine, says Hungarian ruling partiesBanning Russian gas and oil imports would not help Ukraine, says Hungarian ruling partiesBanning Russian gas and oil imports would not help Ukraine, says Hungarian ruling partiesBanning Russian gas and oil imports would not help Ukraine, says Hungarian ruling parties
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Daily News Daily News · 24/05/2022
· Politics

Banning Russian gas and oil imports would not help Ukraine, says Hungarian ruling parties

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In an emergency the government needs to have the ability to act fast and effectively, that is why Hungary’s constitution needs to be amended, István Simicskó, group leader of the co-ruling Christian Democrats, has said referring to a bill before parliament.

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In an interview published in daily Magyar Nemzet on Tuesday, Simicskó said a fast-changing world requires state agencies, services, and their coordination to respond to a new situation as fast as possible.

“There may be no days, weeks or months to consider before making a decision,”

he said.

“The government must be given the necessary room for manoeuvre to instruct state agencies and law-enforcement bodies and effectively ensure security in the country,”

he insisted, and mentioned, for example, the war in Ukraine and hundreds of thousands of refugees taking shelter in Hungary.

Banning Russian gas

Concerning the European Union’s sanctions against Russia, Simicskó said before taking such measures decision-makers should “carefully consider whom they would in fact harm”.

Banning Russian gas and oil imports would not help Ukraine, it could not force Russia to stop its military operations, while Europe will have to buy energy at significantly higher prices,

he said. “To put it simply, the EU will punish itself rather than Russia through this ill-advised embargo policy,” he insisted.

As we wrote earlier, a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on last Monday concluded without a decision being passed regarding a planned embargo of Russian oil, the Hungarian foreign minister said, details here.

  • read also: Oil embargo? MOL makes a huge revenue from Russian oil

Source: MTI

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2 Comments

  1. Balazs says:
    24/05/2022 at 12:26

    Ruling by Decree is generally better than democratic consensus. Not very modern-European but well demonstrated worth in History!

  2. Norbert says:
    24/05/2022 at 12:31

    We may just want to observe and listen. Ominous talk in 2017 with respect to Hungary – “Some (EU Members) objected to increasing dependence on Russian nuclear energy at the same time the bloc is trying to reduce Central and Eastern Europe’s reliance on Russian gas. They also pointed out that the EU had adopted a number of sanctions targeting Russia.”

    https://www.politico.eu/article/hungarys-russian-built-nuclear-plant-powered-by-politics-in-brussels/

    Obviously, we now urgently need Rule by Decree – because we could not have known, right?

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