The European Parliament’s plans are devastating for Hungary
A large majority of the European Parliament (EP) has been demanding a complete embargo on Russian oil, coal, nuclear fuel and gas imports since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The European Union has so far imposed a total of eight sanctions against Moscow as a result of the war in Ukraine, including a ban on coal and other solid fossil fuels and, with limited exceptions, a ban on the import of crude oil and refined petroleum products from Russia.
While the European states have drifted into an energy crisis due to the punitive measures, which may become even more drastic with the arrival of winter, this week the EP struck an even stricter tone in the sanctions policy.
In a resolution adopted in the last plenary meeting, Russia was declared a state sponsor of terrorism, the body asks the European Council every week: impose an immediate and complete embargo on the EU import of Russian fossil fuels and uranium, as well as the complete shutdown of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines Russia’s aggressive in order to stop advertising his war.
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said that the EU is working on the preparation of the ninth package of sanctions against Russia.
Due to its energy supply, Europe is highly dependent on imports of Russian nuclear fuels, mostly uranium and fossil fuels. According to a study by the Global Energy Policy Center in Colombia, there are a total of 18 Russian-designed nuclear reactors in Europe – in Finland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria – all of which are largely supplied with nuclear fuel by the Russian state nuclear energy agency Rosatom.
Based on this, our country’s energy supply will also be at risk if the EP demands that they accept the ninth package of sanctions, within the framework of which the import of Russian natural gas, crude oil, and uranium would be completely stopped.
“The EP representatives of the left support immediate and full-scale petroleum, natural gas and nuclear energy sanctions,” wrote Tamás Deutsch in his Facebook post after the adoption of the EP resolution. The Fidesz EP representative highlighted that representatives of the domestic left voted against Hungary’s interests, including Klára Dobrev and Csaba Molnár, from the Democratic Coalition (DK), Márton Gyöngyösi (Jobbik), and Katalin Cseh, a politician from the Momentum Movement.