The plan drawn up by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, aimed at imposing a ban on the import of Russian energy resources, would constitute an attack on Hungarian sovereignty and increase the country's energy dependence, increasing household bills, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said today, quoted by the national news agency MTI, BTA reported,,
Speaking at a conference in Budapest, Szijjártó said that if the European Union adopts the plan, “energy prices will skyrocket and restrictions on supply routes will make Hungary highly dependent“. He noted that determining the energy mix is a matter of national sovereignty, adding that adopting the plan would be tantamount to an “attack on sovereignty“.
The minister said he expected the attacks to continue in the future.
“We will have to double or triple our efforts to protect sovereignty. We must avoid war next door. We must not allow a single illegal immigrant to enter the country. And we will continue to defend families“, Szijjártó added.
“We must resist the pressure from Brussels to establish a puppet government in Hungary. We need a patriotic government that fights for national interests“, he said.
Meanwhile, Szijjártó pointed to two aspects of the new world order: the “revolution of common sense“ and the "EU falling further and further behind the rest of the world."
He said the "patriotic turn" in the US had led to "an era of normality and rationality," in which "words like peace and truce have once again become legitimate expressions." "You can once again emphasize the importance of border protection and abandon the hypocritical position that illegal entry is a human rights issue, not a crime," he added.
"Now, finally, we can freely say that a family consists of a father, a mother, children, and that a man is a man and a woman is a woman," Szijjártó concluded.