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‘Big battle’ expected at EU Energy Council meeting next week, says FM Szijjártó
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Next week’s meeting of the European Union’s Energy Council is expected to see a “big battle”, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Facebook on Thursday, adding that the Hungarian government “will not allow Brussels to take the money needed to extend the war in Ukraine from Hungarian families.”
Péter Szijjártó said that the council meeting in Luxembourg on Monday is scheduled to table “a Von der Leyen-Zelensky proposal aiming to force us to stop buying natural gas, crude oil and nuclear fuel from Russia.” According to a ministry statement, Szijjártó said: “Brussels wants to support Ukraine by doubling or tripling the utility costs of Hungarian families.”
Szijjártó said he had talked to his Slovak counterpart, Juraj Blanar, and they had agreed that “such a gross violation of sovereignty is unacceptable. “The national energy mix is a matter of sovereignty that no outside player can interfere with. We are not willing to replace our already existing energy resources with more expensive and more unstable ones, not for the sake of Brussels or Kyiv,” Szijjártó said.