Slovakia and Hungary on Monday at the EU Council for Telecommunications and Energy in Luxembourg were spoken against the plan for the plan from Russia to the EU by the end of 2027. According to him, the plan supported the remaining 25 EU Member States, TASR writes according to the report of PAP.
In early May, the European Commission presented a plan that EU Member States should completely break away from Russian energy, including gas, oil and nuclear fuel by the end of 2027. Hungary, which takes most of its energy sources from Russia, has opposed this initiative and warned that it would try to prevent its implementation.
Slovakia is asking for delay of sanctions
Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Robert Fico informed on Sunday that Slovakia will ask Slovakia at the meeting of EU Foreign Ministers to request a postponement of the vote on another package of anti -Russian sanctions until the question of the full ban on Russian gas import is resolved after 2027 and possible damages that would have been established in such a case.
“Unfortunately, the Council of the European Union did not approve the conclusions because the two delegations disagreed with their acceptance in the form we proposed,” said pain on Monday in Luxembourg, and according to PAP, he meant Slovakia and Hungary.
He described the draft document as very ambitious and, in his words, clearly stated how to increase EU energy security. He added that its adoption by 25 EU countries shows that the decision to gradually end the import of Russian gas and oil has the support of the “fixed majority” in the EU.
According to Reuters sources, Brussels is expected to submit a proposal on Tuesday to pass the Russian gas import without the consent of Bratislava and Budapest through a strengthened qualified majority of countries and most of the European Parliament’s deputies.
Denmark, which will be taken from Poland at the beginning of July by the EU Council Presidency, will, according to its Minister of Energy Larsa Aagaard, continue negotiations in order to “find out whether it is possible to obtain wider support for the proposal. He added that the gradual termination of Russian gas imports to the EU would be a priority during the Danish Board of the Council.
