FM Szijjártó: Nuclear energy faces discrimination and ideological attacks

Hungary is creating new energy links with neighboring states, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said in Athens on Friday, adding that the past period had shown that the more links there were, the more secure the respective countries involved were.

Energy supply in future would rely on producing large amounts of cheap and green electricity, and nuclear energy was indispensible to this aim, Szijjártó said at a meeting of a working group on strengthening energy connections in Central and South-Eastern Europe (CESEC).

Hopefully, central and south-eastern European countries would unite to combat “discrimination and ideological attacks against nuclear energy”, he added.

After the expansion of Hungary’s sole nuclear power station in Paks, nuclear capacity in Hungary would increase from 2,000 megawatts to 4,400 megawatts by the beginning of the next decade, the minister said.

The regional energy network, he said, must be expanded as soon as possible so as to maximise the benefits of mutual developments.