Hungary is holding up an EU plan to ban almost all imports of Russian oil, saying it would block the move, which requires unanimity among the bloc’s 27 member states.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, vowed on Wednesday that the EU would phase out all supplies of crude or refined Russian oil in an “orderly fashion”. The ban would hit crude oil within six months and refined products by the end of the year.
But Hungary on Wednesday said it would reject the proposal unless there was an exception for countries like it that import Russian crude via pipelines.
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