After the cabinet meeting on Wednesday announce Gergeli Golias, Minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office, said the government is ordering an energy emergency class because due to the uncertainty in the supply of the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline, there are reports from Western Europe that there is simply no. There will not be enough gas on the continent in winter. For this reason, a seven-point action plan was adopted, one of which was a ban on the export of energy tankers and fuelwood without any particular details, and as a seventh point, the government also took the most important measure: it abandoned the original facility. The reduction is until the population, faced with rising prices, begins to seriously reduce consumption and thus improve supply security and budgeting. We have written about the actions and their expected effects in detail in these articles:
The Commission Advertising Its main message is that they should have been informed of this in advance, because otherwise there is a detailed set of rules about when and on what basis this category can be requested (there should be a clear risk of interruption of continuity of care, economic reasons have never been among these) and they need to Find out how all this affects other member states in terms of energy supply. That’s why they called the government to find out.
The Hungarian move – the main driving force of which may have been the fact that it was possible to announce the modification of the utility reduction regime with reference to the state of emergency – came at a particularly unfavorable time, because next Wednesday the Commission will announce a prepared report on the state of gas supplies in the Winter and his new proposals. It will also include a number of items detailing when and which other member states should help each member state in an acute situation (for example, according to our information, Austria from the gas received by Hungary from the south, the Germans from the gas received by Poland at the LNG terminals ). Meanwhile, Gergeli Golias made it clear in the briefing that Hungary (so far) is not obligated to help other member states.
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