Russian president aims to push Nord Stream 2 while Hungary premier is opposed to EU’s so-called Green Deal
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: REUTERS/LASZLO BALOGH
Why might Putin want to do that? Nord Stream 2 is the obvious answer. It’s a pipeline backed by Russia’s state-owned gas monopoly, Gazprom, that connects Russia directly to Germany under the Baltic Sea. The link has been completed but isn’t in operation yet, because the EU has yet to give the necessary permits.
Orban doesn’t like that, so this week he linked that European carbon price to the current energy crunch, in effect blaming Brussels for manufacturing the crisis. Let’s just scrap the Green Deal, he implied. He got immediate pushback, but he also knows that several other member states are open to his message.
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