Transport Online – refuse to discuss boycott of Russian oil at EU summit
BRUSSELS – Hungary thwarts attempt to agree on Russian oil at upcoming EU summit. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed the issue at Monday’s summit in Brussels.
Hungary is the highest among the EU countries in the proposed boycott, which should deal a serious blow to the Kremlin’s war chest. The postponement and the financial aid for the switch to other fuel that Brussels has offered have not yet convinced Budapest.
Negotiations on the new sanctions for Russia drag on for three weeks, longer-lasting sanctions packages invariably finished in a few days. Because the EU ambassadors and foreign ministers of the do not appear there, to burden the problem of the EU summit. Germany, among others, can be found just before the summit this week.
however, put their heels in the sand and want the compensation first on the table. “We need to find solutions to Hungary’s energy security concerns before whatever sanction can be passed against Russian oil imports,” Orbán said. He wrote to the chairman of the council of heads of government of the EU countries, Charles Michel, that he was in favor of discussing an embargo at the summit, according to EU sources.