Hungary asks EU to green light Russian oil, mocking EU energy commissioner: 'He's definitely good for something'
Hungary's foreign minister said Friday that Dan Jorgensen “is definitely good at something, but it's not about energy,” despite the portfolio he holds. Peter Szijjarto urged the European Commission to allow the return of cheap Russian oil and gas to the European market, MTI reported, according to Agerpres.
Szijjarto said of European Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen that “he is asking Europeans to work from home, drive less, use carpooling and reduce the maximum speed on highways, all because they realized that the war in Iran has dramatic effects on the world energy market”, even though, in the Hungarian official's view, the only acceptable step for the European Commission would be to allow cheap Russian oil and gas to return to the European market.
“Dan Jorgensen – who is Danish, by the way – is certainly good at something, but it's not about energy,” added the head of Hungarian diplomacy.
He claims that Europe risks facing the biggest energy shortage and the biggest price increase in the sector, with the war in Iran blocking around 20% of the world's oil supplies and the European Commission banning cheap Russian crude from the European market, along with cheap Russian natural gas.
What the European Commissioner for Energy said
Politico wrote Tuesday that Dan Jorgensen urged Europeans to work from home and drive less.
In an interview with the Financial Times, the EU is looking at “all possibilities”, including fuel rationing and releasing more oil from emergency reserves, as it prepares for a “long-lasting” energy crisis caused by the war in the Middle East, the European energy commissioner said.
“This will be a long-lasting crisis, energy prices will be higher for a very long time,” he said, warning that for some more “critical” products, “we expect the situation to be even worse in the coming weeks.”
