The Adria oil pipeline has proven to be functional, stable, safe – he stated Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković arrived at the EU summit on Thursday. Through the system leading from the coast through Croatia crude oil arrived in Hungarywhile the transit was suspended on the Ukrainian Baratság (from the line that stopped after the Russian attack they ran in on Thursday the first shipments).
EU heads of state and government, including Viktor Orbán It was declared unanimously in 2022 the exit of Russian energy. To facilitate this, the Hungarian government received a one billion euro cash advance from the EU’s otherwise blocked recovery fund, but later indicated that it did not want to export Russian oil. At the moment, only Russian oil can arrive from the Friendship, in principle tankers can come to the Adriatic from anywhere.
Plenković emphasized on Thursday: “everything is working fine, the agreements are there, the transfer is going on”. No Russian oil was delivered to Hungary via the pipeline, “there is no automation,” he said when asked if Russian sources were allowed. (The Hungarian government previously received an exception for sanctioned Russian marine oil, but according to Mol, Janaf, which operates Adria, is delaying accepting Russian oil citing legal checks and is abusing its position, therefore reported the company at the European Commission, the two companies a at the cost of delivery and also debated whether the wire was suitable as a supplement in the long term.)
They will see if the EU will be more unified with Orbán’s departure – Plenković answered a question about this. He had a very good conversation with Péter Magyar and expects very good cooperation between the 27 leaders.
As the most recently joined EU member, he considered it improbable that Ukraine would complete the process by 2027, for them the negotiation process was a relatively quick six years from the first intergovernmental conference, between 2005 and 2011 (the accession itself took place in mid-2013).
The EU was originally supposed to export crude oil along with Russian natural gas by the end of 2027, but the latter was taken out of the agreementand the European Commission would turn it into a separate proposal. In last year’s declaration of intent, the board wrote about the beginning of 2026, a March date in its preliminary legislative agenda was published on April 15. but this is the war of the United States and Israel against Iran and the Closure of the Strait of Hormuz during disappeared without a date from newer editions of the document, no new proposals have been announced since then.
The Tisza Party It would end it by 2035 Russian energy dependence. Péter Magyar recently he talked aboutthat “Zsolt Hernádi”, the president and CEO of Mol, “will have a trip to Russia, because it is not enough for the Friendship to work”, “it also needs Russian oil, the Russian side will add it”.
