EU member states agreed in October to phase out all Russian gas imports by January 1, 2028. The EU Parliament, in turn, wants to move even faster and put a stop to it as early as 2027. Compromise negotiations are now underway – despite protests from Hungary.
In a radio appearance on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán promises to take the matter to the EU Court of Justice, as he considers the decision to be “clearly illegal.”
Orbán also promises that the exemptions he has received from the US's upcoming sanctions against buying oil from Russia will apply as long as he remains in power.
"It is a personal agreement between two leaders. The bureaucrats can write what they write but it has no meaning," Orbán claims on Hungarian radio, according to the AFP news agency.
