Politico writes that the European Union will prohibit the purchase of Russian oil while actually allowing it - according to them, this is the essence of the compromise, which, according to the paper, was reached by the EU leadership and the governments of the member states by Friday evening.
They reminded: according to the plans, a decision would be made at the EU summit on the sixth package of sanctions introduced against Russia. Part of this would be to ban the import of Russian crude and refined crude oil.
Politico emphasized that Hungary opposed the plan from the beginning: Viktor Orbán called the idea an "economic atomic bomb", later Péter Szijjártó announced that we would ask for 15 billion euros in compensation in exchange for the support, because according to Hungarian calculations, this amount could be used to disconnect the Hungarian energy system from the Russian one. about hydrocarbons.
Politico writes that the EU finally allowed
which means that they can adopt the sixth package of sanctions next week with a "ban" on the import of Russian oil, with some member states being exempted.
The Brussels paper learned that, in addition to Hungary, Slovakia and Germany would also be exempted from the ban on cable transport, citing the fact that they "have no access to the sea". They add that this is of course not true in the case of Germany
those Fidesz statements may prove to be credible, for example Tamás Deutsch's statement, according to which five or six member states quietly pushed Viktor Orbán to lift the total oil import ban from the background.
Source: mandiner.hu
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