Viktor Orbán on the submarine energy pipeline: Hungary is part of a globally unique project
On Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signed the power line coming from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Romania to our country. The more than 1,000-kilometer underwater pipeline under the Black Sea will transport “green electricity” produced in the Caspian region, that is, in Azerbaijan and Georgia, to Central Europe, including Romania and Hungary, M1 News reported.
The Prime Minister emphasized that the European Union is in a strategic vacuum, the leaders of the countries must ensure that their countries create economic and energy security. He added: the solution is to find and deliver new energy sources to Europe.
There is an energy source in reasonable proximity around the Caspian Sea, and the one just announced is an innovative solution for exploiting it, said the Prime Minister. Viktor Orbán highlighted,
the current situation in Europe is “as confused as it has ever been.”
There is a war in our neighborhood, there is a serious energy crisis – which is not only a price crisis but also a supply crisis – meanwhile inflation is sweeping across the entire European economy, European leaders have decided to separate the Russian economy from the European economy, and in the United States . A series of market protection measures, unprecedented in the United States and affecting Europe as well, has begun, he listed.
All this means that the era of the European economy has come to an end, that the European economy has ended, that it has ended the procurement of energy sources from Russia, in exchange it gives Western technology, and this has set the stage for economic growth and military security for both sides. However, there is no new strategy, which is why a strategic vacuum has developed, he pointed out.
He stressed: in this situation, only innovation is a solution, and the pipeline just announced is a real innovative investment. The sea line, which mainly supplies electricity from wind and solar energy production from Azerbaijan, will be 1,195 kilometers long and will also connect Romania and Georgia with an optical cable suitable for fast internet data transmission.
Its capacity reaches 1,000 megawatts.
In addition to Viktor Orbán, Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibasvili signed the contract in the presence of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In the Prime Minister’s speech, the EU has paid a lot of attention to Azerbaijan in the recent period, its development is cooperation, and the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, was also open to cooperation. “I have also experienced for more than a decade that the European Union can always count on Azerbaijan as a reliable partner” – settings off.
Viktor Orbán also mentioned that he came back to Bucharest after eight years and experienced huge progress, which, in his view, justified Romania’s membership in the Schengen zone.
But the other day “we made a wrong decision in the EU” – he reminded – and this must be corrected, Romania must be included in the free movement zone. The head of government assured Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, who was in charge of Saturday’s event, that Bucharest could count on Hungary in this.