Hungary is demanding Croatia’s state-owned JANAF pipeline operator supply the country with Russian oil through its Adriatic pipeline as Prime Minister Viktor Orban struggles to cope with rising fuel prices ahead of elections next month, which opinion polls indicate he could lose.
Rising oil prices, fuelled by the conflict in the Middle East, together with Russian attacks on the Druzhba pipeline across Ukraine, have pushed up diesel and petrol prices in Hungary, threatening Orban’s hopes of extending his 16-year rule.
Orban convened an emergency cabinet meeting on March 9 to discuss the rising fuel prices, and he appealed publicly to the European Union to lift sanctions on Russian energy.
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