After failing to reduce their reliance on Moscow for energy, Hungary and Slovakia now want help from Brussels.
You reap what you sow.
Privately, that’s the exasperated sentiment among EU diplomats as Hungary joins with Slovakia to try and leverage EU rules to preserve access to a discounted product nearly everyone else has had to shun: Russian oil.
Their maneuvering comes in the wake of Ukrainian sanctions blocking the transit of pipeline crude sold by Russia’s largest private oil firm, Lukoil, which could strip the two countries of a third of their oil imports.
Hungary and Slovakia have gone to the rule book, arguing the penalties violate a 2014 trade deal between Kyiv and the EU and asking the European Commission, the EU’s executive, to intervene.
The scenario…
But it exempted pipeline supplies — including those coming to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic via the Druzhba pipeline — to give those countries time to find alternative supplies, with the understanding they would do so rapidly.
The situation so far…
The Czech Republic aims to end its imports from Moscow by 2025,
Good job, Czech.
while Slovakia too has begun upgrading its primary refinery to process more non-Russian crude.
Okay, could be doing much better, Slovakia. You’ll need more than that.
But Hungary chose to go the other way, instead ramping up oil imports via the pipeline by 50 percent compared to 2021.
Maybe they can suck some oil out of Putin’s pipeline
Hungary and Slovakia have gone to the rule book, arguing the penalties violate a 2014 trade deal between Kyiv and the EU and asking the European Commission, the EU’s executive, to intervene.
How dare they trying to stay alive in a war against their existence. It’s inconvenient for others if they behave like that! 😭
hungary needs to go. let them join the poor side.
I’d still prefer them to ditch their idiot leader and come back to sanity.
How about you leave the EU and go to Russia.
LOL
What’s so funny? I don’t find it funny that you’d insinuate that Hungary should leave the EU just because of an idiot.
there are no voters in hungary? you are painting a dark image.
And this is the time that Hungary really needs something… and every other country in the EU with a grievance can just block, and block, and block… one after the other. Each citing the rule that supercedes all other rules… “Fuck Around, Find Out”.
Hungary has shown itself to be a bad faith actor, no need to try and get them to play ball. Cause the first moment they are not dependent, they will just revert to the current form.
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