8 hours agoPolish President cancels meeting with Orban, following Hungarian Prime Minister's visit to Moscow
Periskopi(6 months ago)
(6 months ago)Polish President Carol Nawrock will travel to Hungary on Wednesday, but he will no longer meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as previously announced. Vice President K. Nowrocki has decided to limit his visit to Hungary exclusively at the University of Visegrad Group summit in Ostrzyhom”, wrote [...]
Vice President K. Nawrocki has decided to limit his visit to Hungary exclusively at the University of Visegrad Group summit in Ostrzyhom”, Marcin Przydacz, head of the International Policy Office at the Office of the President at X.
The reason, as stated officially by the Presidential Palace, is Orbán's visit to Moscow, which, according to the Hungarian prime minister, provided guarantees for long-term energy supplies from Russia.
Russian “Energy provides the basis for Hungary's energy supply, now and in the future”, had provided Orbán.
“Referring to President Lech Kaczynski's legacy policy, which stressed that Europe's security depends on action in solidarity, even in the field of energy, on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's visit to Moscow and its context, President K. Nawrocki decided to limit the programme of his visit to Hungary”, Przydacz wrote in the statement, write foreign media.
Even before the visit, Orbán said he would seek additional oil and gas supplies from Moscow after Hungary received an indefinite exception from US sanctions to use Russian oil and gas, from which much depends.
