What they want to impose on the member states from Brussels is a disproportionate and two-faced policy, said Mr. Constitutional lawyer Zoltán Lomnici, legal expert of Századvég in the M1 Ma Reggel program. According to the expert, the European Commission's proposal is currently based on a voluntary basis, but based on the examples of recent years, pressure on the member states may soon begin. The draft called " safe gas for a safe winter" , which envisages a consumption reduction of around 15 percent, carries with it an instigated legislation, which may ultimately even mean the withdrawal of funds from the member states.

According to Századvég, the European Commission's proposal regarding the gas crisis would mean an intervention in the lives of EU citizens, and it would limit national sovereignty in an unprecedented way, and all of this would mean a renunciation of the basic principles of the European Union. According to Zoltán Lomnici Jr

in recent years, it has become a trend for the European Commission to try to create legislation by bypassing the European Parliament.

Although the latter institution usually does not act as a partner with our country and the Central European region, this procedure still goes against the basic functioning of the union.

The constitutional lawyer said that the European Council and the European Commission are basically supposed to remedy the gas crisis - in accordance with the Union's operating regulations.
However, the draft called " safe gas for a safe winter" , which envisages a consumption reduction of around 15 percent between August 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023, carries with it an instigated legislation that could ultimately even mean the withdrawal of funds from the member states .

"It is disproportionate and again an extremely two-faced policy that is being imposed on the member states," said Jr. Lomnici, pointing out: the EU's annual gas consumption is 400 billion cubic meters, while Hungary's is 8-10 billion cubic meters, so it is not realistic to apply the same strict sanctions against our country as, say, Germany or France.

For now, it is possible to join the European Commission's proposal on a voluntary basis, but according to the constitutional lawyer, it can also be read from previous precedents:

it is primarily worth noting the statements of the committee, but the concretely written text, which may contain details that could later be blackmailing potential in the hands of Brussels.

Regarding the handling of the crisis in Hungary, the legal expert of Századvég said that there is a definite idea about this in our country, a good example of this is the gas reservoir capacity, which in Hungary is 27 percent, while the EU average is only 17 percent, and in Western Europe the guiding idea is to continue instead of taking meaningful steps also only consists in reducing consumption.

In relation to Brussels' plans to circumvent the veto right, he said that the EU's leaders seem to have a hard time with the institution of the veto, and turning it off would make it possible to punish sovereigntist aspirations.

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