Orban was giving his opinion on plans by the EU to ban Russian oil imports.
of dropping"an atomic bomb" on Hungary's economy by trying to ban Russian oil imports because of its aggression in Ukraine.is proposing an oil export ban on Russia, in its latest sanctions response to the Ukraine war. On Wednesday, the bloc said it plans to ban Russian oil imports within six months and refined products by the end of the year in its latest raft of economic sanctions.
Speaking about the plans in an interview with Kossuth Radio on Friday morning, Orban said:"This is an atomic bomb they want to drop on the Hungarian economy."Hungary's right-wing leader said that it would take years to transform the Hungarian energy system to not rely on Russian oil. He said that Hungary couldn't support the European Commission's next planned sanctions on Russia in their full form. Orban said that the EU had already crossed a"red line" and insisted that Hungary must maintain its ability to veto the bloc's proposals,"because otherwise, we would lose all our friends in the EU."
"They have crossed this red line, coal may not affect Hungary. But they just keep coming, you have to stop here." Although Orban said he could accept most of the latest sanctions packages the EU proposed, he drew the line on the oil embargo and the EU's intention to add Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox Church leader, to the sanctions list.has contacted the EU for comment.
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