Hungary vows to block EU plan to ban Russian energy imports

21/10/2025 7:14

Hungary will use all political and legal means to block the European Union's (EU) proposed REPowerEU plan aimed at banning Russian energy imports, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said Monday in Luxembourg.



Speaking after a meeting of EU foreign and energy ministers, Szijjarto said the proposed ban had no energy, professional, security or economic justification, and only political and ideological motives.



He criticized the European Commission for what he called a lack of understanding of the proposal's potential consequences for certain member states, warning that its adoption would "seriously endanger" the energy security of Hungary and Slovakia.



Szijjarto added that pushing the package through by qualified majority voting would "openly violate EU law," arguing that it effectively constitutes a sanction measure requiring unanimous approval.