When asked about the prospect of the EU targeting Russian gas in its next round of sanctions, the Hungarian minister replied: “No, it’s impossible.”
Speaking to CNBC's Charlotte Reed on Thursday on the sidelines of the OECD's Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris, France, Szijjarto said:"When we impose sanctions, then we have to make sure that those sanctions are hurting more those against whom we impose the sanctions than ourselves."
Szijjarto spoke of his frustration that Hungary had been portrayed as a country reluctant to punish Russia's war in Ukraine, pointing to the fact that Russia currently supplies 65% of Hungary's oil and 85% of its gas supplies. Shortly after the EU agreed to its sixth package of sanctions last month, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas called for the bloc to go even further and discuss the prospect of a Russian gas embargo in its seventh round of measures.
When Hungary's Szijjarto was asked about the prospect of the EU targeting Russian gas exports in its next round of sanctions, he replied:"No, it's impossible."
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