Fidesz: Non-EU Ukraine is threatening the energy security of two EU member states

Tamás Menczer, the Fidesz communications director, said in a video posted on social media on Monday that the only thing those striving for peace can count on is getting blackmailed.

The ruling party Fidesz official said non-EU Ukraine is threatening the energy security of two EU member states, Hungary and Slovakia, notwithstanding the EU association agreement by which Ukraine is bound. The official added that the European Commission, as the guardian of the treaties, should take action to protect member states and ensure countries such as Ukraine uphold the agreement.

Yet Brussels was doing very little about it, and it was even possible that the commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, had suggested the oil blockade, he said.

“We’ll use all means at our disposal to defend ourselves,” he said, noting regulatory and legal tools, a consultation procedure, or arbitration as possible avenues.

Menczer also referred to “technical possibilities”, adding that Hungarian oil and gas company MOL “is investigating these”.

He said Hungary had no intention of blackmailing Ukraine. “The contracts and agreements that we enter into are something we want to stick to,” he said. At the same time, he warned that much of the energy that Ukraine receives “passes through Hungary”.

As we wrote earlier, Hungary, Slovakia could restrict electricity supplies to Ukraine, details HERE.