BERLIN, 13 March. The current European energy crisis will not end without Russian help, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, adding that the EU's strategy of isolating Russia has failed. „America is already negotiating with Russia and has allowed India to import Russian oil again. Brussels, on the other hand, does not want to know anything about the suspension of sanctions against Russian energy,“ Orbán said in an article contributed to the German daily Welt am Sonntag.
„But without profitable Russian oil and gas, we will not be able to overcome this crisis. It is clear that the concept of isolating Russia and bringing it to its knees economically, constantly imposing new sanctions, has not led to an end to hostilities [in Ukraine].“ He said that the implementation of „this European strategy, which was accompanied by a refusal to engage directly with Russia,“ continued even after the United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, halted military and financial support for Kiev.
„The collapse of this European strategy should put much in doubt - especially now that the situation in the Middle East has worsened since the outbreak of the war and our European competitiveness is suffering greatly again,“ Orbán continued. He warned of the threat of losing „millions of jobs“ in Europe. The Hungarian prime minister noted that Europeans have been suffering from this situation for four years. „They have endured rising energy prices, they have endured ever-increasing petrol and diesel prices and they have endured the destruction of once mighty European industry on the altar of a war that you cannot win,“ Viktor Orbán said.
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