• Coronavirus in Hungary
  • Budapest
  • Hungary border control
  • HelloMagyar
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
<strong> PM Orbán: Hungary may be ‘ice breaker’ between Russia, West </strong><strong> PM Orbán: Hungary may be ‘ice breaker’ between Russia, West </strong><strong> PM Orbán: Hungary may be ‘ice breaker’ between Russia, West </strong><strong> PM Orbán: Hungary may be ‘ice breaker’ between Russia, West </strong>
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Breaking News
Support us
DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 04/02/2022
· Politics

PM Orbán: Hungary may be ‘ice breaker’ between Russia, West

diplomacy European Union France Germany Hungary Russia United States Viktor Orbán

Hungary may have the role of an “ice breaker” between Russia and the West, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to public radio on Friday.

Assessing his recent visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Orbán told Kossuth Rádió that Hungary aimed to maintain good relations with Russia while being a member of NATO and the European Union, which made

“the Hungarian model” completely different from most EU countries.

He said “all this works well when things ice over”, and he described his recent visit as “a peace mission”. Orbán noted that following his meeting with Putin,

the German chancellor and the French president are also scheduled to visit Moscow in the near future.

  • Read also: How popular is Putin in Central and Eastern Europe?

Orbán added that Russian gas is key to maintaining Hungary’s energy system. The minister of foreign affairs and trade has secured 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year for fifteen years and the possibility of increasing this by another 1 billion. An agreement is almost in hand, he said, adding that negotiations were under way. Hungary is on the way to being the first country in Europe that

reduces its reliance on fossil fuels to no more than 10 percent of the energy mix by 2030,

Orbán said.

“Hungary is already a climate champion,” the prime minister said, and a leader in reducing emissions. He noted the role of the expansion of the Paks nuclear plant and the country’s solar power plants in the process of creating energy independence. Orbán said that until this is achieved, Russian gas was key to maintaining the country’s energy needs, noting the foreign minister’s successful efforts

Viktor Orbán George Soros
Read alsoSoros’s message: Hungarians can outvote an autocrat in 2022 – VIDEO

Source: MTI

diplomacy European Union France Germany Hungary Russia United States Viktor Orbán
Share
DNH 2021
DNH 2021

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

SUPPORT US

Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up to receive daily updates, news & stories about Hungary!

Select your location below or enter your country so we can deliver our morning newsletters to you in time.


Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.


.

Latest news
  • PHOTOS: Delhi Hungarian Cultural Centre commemorated famous Hungarian-Indian painter
  • Snowstorm: Lufthansa plane almost ran out of fuel over Hungary, passengers in shock
  • What happened today in Hungary? – 3 February, 2023
  • Court: Hungary responsible for the death of a 22-year-old Syrian migrant
  • 510 EUR/month – would you work for that in Hungary as a university teacher?
  • Wizz Air considerably changed its summer schedule, ticket prices expected to grow
  • PHOTOS: you can meet with Hungarian international chess grandmaster here
  • Hungarians living in Ukraine in danger? Anti-Hungarian mood, enforced military conscriptions, atrocities

About us

Contact us

Copyright rules

© 2023 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved! | Server and development by Svigelj Levente E.V