New Hungarian President Novák’s first trip to Warsaw
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Hungary and Poland are calling on the European Commission to make arrangements to ensure that the two countries could receive the allocations they are entitled to from the EU Reconstruction Fund, President Katalin Novák said on Tuesday after meeting her Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda in Warsaw.
“It is in Hungary’s fundamental interest that the country should increase its sovereignty and independence from Russia in terms of energy supplies as well, but this requires access to resources,” she said at a joint press conference held with Duda.
Novák noted Hungary’s dependence on Russian energy, saying that this is why “we are in a more difficult situation than most other EU member states”. She said that Hungary had however voted in support of the five previous EU packages of sanctions against Russia and expressed thanks to Duda, adding that she would appreciate his help for Hungary to represent its interests in connection with the EU’s proposed sixth package of sanctions.
Novák said that making Poland the destination of her first international visit in the capacity as Hungary’s new president was not primarily a diplomatic move but an “obvious choice, resulting from our thousand-year friendship and the fact that Poles and Hungarians still stand close to each other in terms of their values”.
“We both stand on similar footing, Christian conviction, faith, the protection of traditional families and national interests are important to us,” she said.
Hungary and Poland could always rely on each other and “we will not allow anyone to drive a wedge between us”, Novák said.
Young people setting up family and having children would be in the focus of talks had it been a peaceful time, but war was started by Russia in a common neighbour country, Ukraine, 83 days ago, she said. Novák said
Hungary condemned the aggression of Russian President Vladimir Putin attacking a sovereign state and she presented ten points that she said were Hungary’s responses.
Poland has vey publicly disavowed Hungary. It should be an interesting lack of minds, frostier than an ice lolly.
And still – our politicans stand by the decision to continue the EUR 12 billion Paks II nuclear project to the Kremlin-owned Rosatom. This without opening up the project at the time for competitive bidding as required by EU law. Reminder: PA
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungarys-russian-built-nuclear-plant-powered-by-politics-in-brussels/
Written in 2017: “The eventual compromise between Brussels and Budapest came despite serious concerns among other EU members and environmentalists about the need for a new nuclear station when cheaper renewables and electricity links were already available. Some of them 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.”
Why don’t other countries don’t just believe us??? Our politicians INTENTIONALLY choose Russia. They know.