Orbán: we were exempted from the gas price cap, we managed to protect Hungary’s interests
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Orbán: we were exempted from the gas price cap, we managed to protect Hungary’s interests
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October 21, 2022
We were exempted from the gas cap, so it does not endanger Hungary’s safe gas supply, it was a long battle, but we managed to protect Hungary’s interests, the Prime Minister wrote in a Facebook message from Brussels early Friday.
Viktor Orbán announced that the energy proposals of the European Commission represented the “biggest danger” for Hungary.
“By accepting them, we would have risked that gas deliveries to Hungary would stop within a few days,” he wrote.
The danger was averted: “Hungary was not left alone, so a fair agreement was reached,” he said.
“We agreed that even if there is a gas cap in Europe, it will not affect the long-term contracts, without which Hungary’s gas supply would become impossible from one day to the next,” added the prime minister.
He also made it known that if there is joint gas procurement in Europe, it will not be mandatory for Hungary, so “all procurement options are still open”.
“This is important, because we can only reduce the price of energy in our country if there are as many sources as possible, the greater the competition in the Hungarian energy market,” Viktor Orbán pointed out.