Possible Ukraine oil embargo ‘managed from Brussels’, says Orbán’s minister

The decision in Kyiv to stop Lukoil shipments to Hungary and Slovakia was likely coordinated in Brussels as “they cannot stand it that Hungary has not backed down under pressure”, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on Saturday.

Addressing a Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) event in Esztergom, the minister said that the European Union had “weakened a lot”, but “it is surely not so weak as to tolerate a candidate country taking a decision without any consultation”, threatening the security of the energy supply of two EU member states.

He noted Ukraine’s action affected a third of Hungarian crude oil imports and 40-45 percent of Slovak imports, “a significant energy supply risk”.

Further, Croatia was abusing its position by “hiking transit fees several times over” and limiting Hungary to short-term contracts, he added.

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