Hungary and Slovakia can quit Russian energy, report finds

Trump's appointee Robert Palladino told Mandiner that he has returned to traditional diplomacy, paying respect and not lecturing the Hungarian government.

Hungary and Slovakia can quit Russian energy, report finds

Ample alternatives exist, but both countries have increased reliance on Moscow and made millions, researchers say.

Hungary and Slovakia have alternatives to Russian oil and gas, but they are increasing their dependency.

Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Hungary and Slovakia have sent €5.4B to Moscow for crude oil alone, a sum sufficient to fund 1,800 Iskander-M missiles. Despite sanctions exemptions aimed at reducing their reliance, Budapest and Bratislava show little genuine intention to forsake Russian oil. Hungary’s reliance on Russian oil has risen from 61% before the invasion to 86% in 2024, while Slovakia remains almost fully dependen…

The European Commission’s Russian Energy Failure: A Toothless Bureaucracy Masked by Rhetoric

More than three years after Vladimir Putin’s tanks rolled into Ukraine, the European Commission continues to preside over a regime of make-believe sanctions, unable to prevent its own member states from quietly sustaining the Kremlin’s war machine. Brussels blusters about solidarity with Kyiv, but behind the curtain of press conferences and grand declarations lies a shocking truth: Russian energy is still flowing into Europe, and with it, the Eu…