Hungary to challenge EU Russian oil, gas ban next week
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Hungary and Slovakia will take their case against a potential ban on Russian oil and gas to the EU Court of Justice next week, News.Az reports, citing the TASS.
“Brussels wants to put for voting next week a resolution banning imports of Russian oil and natural gas to Europe. This dictation will make it impossible to ensure reliable energy supplies to our country and Slovakia and will provoke a dramatic price hike,” he wrote on his Facebook account (Facebook is banned in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which has been designated as extremist).
“Moreover, this is a big legal fraud because, in fact, this is a sanction measure that can be adopted only unanimously,” he noted, adding that the European Commission’s intention to make this decision not by a consensus but by a majority vote “totally contradicts the principal Treaty on European Union,” which, among other things, says that the energy policy is a national competence of countries.
“That is why, immediately after this decision is made, jointly with the Slovak government we will file a suit with the EU Court of Justice demanding this regulation be cancelled and its effect be suspended while judicial proceeding continue,” he added.
The Hungarian government has expressed its intention to seek exemptions from those rules. However, no proposals on the matter have yet been received from EU leaders.
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