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Published on 15/10/2025 - 16:53 GMT+2
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The European Commission reacted swiftly to the latest travel by Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó to Moscow connected Wednesday, saying the sojourn “is not the close connection to Putin.”
The apical Hungarian diplomat defied the bulk of EU states erstwhile again by attending an vigor league successful the Russian capital, wherever helium called the EU’s vigor diversification attempts to signifier retired fossil fuels “crazy”.
A European Commission spokesperson told the property connected Wednesday that immoderate bilateral contacts by subordinate states should respect the EU presumption and policies, successful particular, erstwhile the bloc is scaling down its relations with Moscow to the minimum.
"Being successful Moscow, close present is not the close connection to Putin, due to the fact that clip and discourse matter," spokesperson Anitta Hipper said.
She added that the EU is presently preparing its 19th Russian sanctions package, including a afloat prohibition connected LNG imports and sanctions against 2 large Russian lipid companies, Rosneft and Gazprom Neft.
Hungary inactive imports a important information of its fossil fuels from Russia. The EU's REpowerEU roadmap plans to signifier retired each imports from Russia by 2027. This would besides chopped Hungary's lipid imports from Russia done the Druzhba pipeline.
"Currently, determination are 2 lipid pipelines starring to Hungary, and Brussels wants america to destruct 1 successful the sanction of diversification," Szijjártó said successful Moscow connected Wednesday.
"But however tin the elimination of 1 pipeline beryllium called diversification? How tin 1 pipeline beryllium considered safer than two?" helium asked, calling it "madness, implicit illogicality."
The different lipid pipeline enters Hungary from Croatia. However, according to the Hungarian government, the Adria pipeline is insufficient for the country's needs arsenic a landlocked country.
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