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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 28/03/2023
· Politics

Eternal friendship: Hungary and Poland go against the EU together

Hungary and Poland have voted against a “dangerous” proposal of the European Commission to extend earlier legislation cutting the use of natural gas by 15 percent, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Tuesday in Brussels.

Szijjártó told a press conference on the sidelines of a meeting of the EU’s energy council that the EC’s proposal would cut gas consumption rather than drawing in further resources or developing infrastructure, the ministry said.

The original regulation was adopted last year despite Hungarian and Polish objection, he said. While that legislation pertained to a winter period when growing household demand made it easier to comply, this proposal is “more dangerous” as it threatens industrial consumption more, he said.

“Artificially curbing industrial consumption raises the risk of economic regression,” he said.

Szijjártó said the regulation amounted to a “stealthy curbing of member states’ competencies” as member states have the right to decide over energy use, the national energy mix and  the country’s economic structure themselves. “By deciding to curb the use of natural gas, they basically harm sovereign member states’ rights,” he added.

Hungary has now joined a lawsuit brought by Poland after the fist regulation, contesting the decision to adopt the regulation without a unanimous vote.

The regulation may curb demand on the market, he added, which would drive up prices. “The proposal threatens to bring growing prices and supply security issues, leading to recession,” he said.

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Hungary voted against the proposal and maintains that gas supply is not a political issue, “and discriminating against gas resources on political grounds is extremely harmful.” The aim should be to bring as much natural gas into Europe as possible, from the most diverse resources possible, he said.

Many experts have warned of the possibility of a gas shortage this winter, he said. Some 60 billion cubic meters of Russian gas will be missing from the European system, and growing Chinese demand might syphon away further resources as the country’s economy reopens, he warned. Meanwhile, Europe is still missing the LNG capacity necessary to replace the missing resources, he said.

At the same time, natural gas costs seven times more in Europe than in the US, and electricity is three times dearer here than in China, he noted. “The only reasonable step in this situation would be to increase gas supply in Europe,” he said.

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4 Comments

  1. Michael Steiner says:
    28/03/2023 at 18:52

    The Euros have completely lost their minds!!! Reduce use of natural gas!?! Why??? It’s clean, cheap, efficient, reliable. At a time when the cost of living, and energy in particularly, is going through the roof, we need to utilize gas MORE, not LESS! This is yet another lunatic Leftist harebrained initiative to Save the Planet™, despite the fact that China opens up a new coal power plant every. single. week. Go fry an egg, E.U. Hungary saved Europe from the Ottomans back in the day; it’s saving it today from an illegal alien invasion; seems it’ll be saving it tomorrow from the globalist slimeballs scheming to throw us back into the 15th century. And all Hungary gets in return is St. Ursula whining about how “undemocratic” we are!

  2. Zsazsa says:
    29/03/2023 at 08:08

    You are not “we”. You are a troll.

  3. Norbert says:
    29/03/2023 at 10:42

    Just because Hungary and Poland tactically align on a single matter – it’s not a sign of “eternal friendship”…

    Challenging to balance the need for affordable fuel while starving Russia of it’s main source of revenue – that much is abundantly clear.

  4. Roz says:
    29/03/2023 at 12:56

    Well said Zsazsa.
    And as Poland is supplying four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, I can’t see the “eternal friendship” lasting much longer. We are becoming more and more isolated but sadly this is not the will of the people, it’s the result of a corrupt government.

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