Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Hungary and Slovakia have called for action by the European Commission regarding Ukraine's decision to restrict crude oil deliveries.
“Why has the EC not taken any steps for more than a week?” Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs and trade asked in a Facebook entry posted on Tuesday. “Brussels is silent”, even though the measure is putting the energy security of two member states at risk, and is “a crystal clear violation of the European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement,” Szijjártó said. Brussels is either too weak to push through the interests of two member states against a membership candidate, “or the whole idea was conceived in Brussels rather than Ukraine, and it is the European Commission, rather than the Ukrainian government, that wants to blackmail two pro-peace countries opposing weapons deliveries,” the minister said. Szijjártó said: “The European Commission and personally Ursula von der Leyen must immediately show their true colours: was the oil delivery ban requested from Brussels? If it wasn’t, why has the EC not taken action for over a week?”