2022-05-02 11:13
Original title: Senior Hungarian official exploded: 9 EU member states quietly use rubles to buy Russian gas, but they do not admit it
[Global Network Report]The “Russia Today” (RT) website reported that in an interview on May 1, local time, Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office Director Gregory Gujas said that Hungary opened an account in Gazprom to comply with the Russian proposal. way to pay for natural gas, in addition, nine other EU countries are doing the same. He also said that in order to appear to be “doing good Europeans”, the leaders of these countries did not acknowledge it.
Screenshot of Russia Today report
Gujas said Hungary had opened an account in euros with Gazprom, where the gas was charged in euros, which the bank would then convert into rubles and forward to Russian suppliers.
“Nine other countries are using the same payment scheme, but because of the current thinking of ‘being European’, it means that the leaders of these countries are dishonest when they speak on the international stage or to their own people, and others Nine countries won’t say they’re doing the same thing.” Guash also exposed.
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According to the report, because Hungary relies on Russia for all natural gas imports, it opposes EU sanctions on this key commodity, and Guyash reiterated his opposition to the EU sanctions regime on May 1. “We must not take sanctions that primarily punish ourselves, not those we want to punish,” Guyash said.
RT said it was unclear which nine EU countries Guyash was referring to. But Gazprom has stopped gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after they refused to pay in rubles, but Bloomberg recently (April 27) reported that, as Guyash said, the EU’s 10 4 member states have opened accounts with Gazprom, and 4 countries have actually paid for Gazprom using this mechanism.