"If Hungary fulfills its promise to pay for Russian energy in rubles, it will break EU sanctions," von der Leyen said earlier.
As reported by several sources, Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview with CNN: "If Hungary fulfills its promise to pay for Russian energy in rubles, it will break EU sanctions."
Von der Leyen said they had analyzed a decree previously signed by Vladimir Putin, in which he proposed that European countries convert euros into rubles and pay for gas with that, and found that this would be a violation of EU sanctions against Russia. CNN notes that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán previously indicated that Hungary would be willing to pay for gas in rubles, and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó also referred to this in a statement.
I would like to reassure everyone: Hungary's energy supply is safe and will continue to be so in the future.
"Based on the contractual relationship between MVM's subsidiary, CEEnergy, and Gazprom's subsidiary, Gazpromexport, as well as the technical negotiations of the past few days, it is possible to pay for the delivered natural gas in the manner prescribed by the supplier without violating the Brussels sanctions," he writes in the post. "We understand that others have other interests, but our interest is to guarantee the security of our country's energy supply. And we do that
because no one can make the Hungarian people pay the price of the war."
Source: mandiner.hu
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