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| 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by Teaser4(op): 6:56pm On May 01, 2022 |
European leaders won’t admit they’re going along with Russia’s deal, government official Gergely Gulyas said While multiple European leaders have publicly proclaimed they won’t buy Russian gas in rubles as Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded, 10 EU countries are technically going along with Putin’s plan, Hungarian official Gergely Gulyas told public radio on Sunday. According to Gulyas, these countries’ leaders aren’t admitting this in order to be seen as “being a good European.” Gulyas said that Hungary has opened a euro account with Russia’s Gazprombank, which then converts payments into rubles before transferring them to suppliers in Russia. This system allows European buyers to comply with Putin’s demand, made in late March, that “unfriendly” countries switch to Russia’s national currency to buy its natural gas. “There are nine other countries using the same payment scheme, but because today the idea of being a good European also means that the leaders of those countries are not honest when speaking either in the international arena or to their own people, the other nine countries won’t say that they are doing the same thing,” said Gulyas, who serves as Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that countries importing raw materials from Russia use exactly the same method to pay for Russian gas,” he added. It is unclear which EU countries Guylas was referring to. Russian energy giant Gazprom has already shut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after both refused to pay in rubles, but a Bloomberg report last week stated, as Gulyas did, that 10 of the bloc’s member states have already set up accounts with Gazprombank, and four have actually paid for Russian gas using this mechanism. Hungary depends on Russia for all of its gas imports, and has therefore opposed EU sanctions on this critical commodity. Gulyas reiterated this commitment to Russian energy and opposition to Brussels’ sanctions regime on Sunday. “We mustn’t adopt sanctions with which we primarily penalize ourselves instead of those we want to sanction,” he said, referring to soaring energy costs throughout Europe. While the government in Budapest has condemned Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, Guylas said that it would “continue to buy our energy at the cheapest possible price” to offset any costs on the Hungarian people. https://www rt com/business/554827-hungary-eu-gas-rubles/
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| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by dvkot(m): 7:26pm On May 01, 2022 |
Ukraine is fighting USA war.. And killing her citizen, let them hand the president another script |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by Teaser4(op): 7:53pm On May 01, 2022 |
dvkot:bro, Ukraine is winning oooo…. |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by mojounited(m): 8:33pm On May 01, 2022 |
Denial is allowed, but it's either you pay in Ruble or you freeze!  |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by sapientia(m): 8:44pm On May 01, 2022 |
Dont believe anything from this OP All his news all directly from Russia today I wonder why you dont always write it to be clickable Well, What do you expect from a Muslim terrorist |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by VictorUSA(m): 8:52pm On May 01, 2022 |
Propaganda from the other side.It's like orban is gradually becoming Putin's ally. |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by Teaser4(op): 9:47pm On May 01, 2022 |
This loonatic don reach here… na your source make dem Dey believe abi…. Pray make ASUU call off strike cos your life dey waste Dey go be that…. Dindinrin…..
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| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by Elporo(m): 9:49pm On May 01, 2022 |
mojounited:Poland is buying via Germany |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by Teaser4(op): 9:52pm On May 01, 2022 |
Elporo:nah propaganda, Poland will never buy Russian gas again …. Lemaoooooo |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by Teaser4(op): 10:14pm On May 01, 2022 |
RT nah propaganda but Kyiv independent is authentic…. Una don ment finish 1 Like |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by Elporo(m): 11:03pm On May 01, 2022 |
Teaser4:Effeminate Nigerian men are rising in nos! https://tass.com/economy/1444227 Gas pumping via the pipeline from Germany to Poland went up 5.2-fold to 1.23 mln cubic meters per hour. |
| Re: 10 EU Countries Quietly Buying Gas With Rubles, Hungary Says by Teaser4(op): 11:17pm On May 01, 2022 |
Elporo:dem go talk say Tass na Russia propaganda but Kyiv independent is legit…. Hahahaha |
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