European Parliament Vice President Katarina Barly called for a decision on the planned EU oil embargo against Russia without the participation of Hungary, reports DW.

She stated this in an interview with the Deutschlandfunk media company on Saturday, May 21.. According to her, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban " Budapest's demand for billions of dollars in aid, she considers "

Barley accused the head of the Hungarian government of using the dispute over the oil embargo for his " Orban's primary concern is that the money flows through his "

The adoption of the sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia is delayed due to the position of a number of countries most dependent on Russian oil supplies. The EU has offered to give them a delay in finding new suppliers of raw materials:

Prague could start an embargo from July 2024, and Budapest and Bratislava from 2025.

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However, for Hungary, this proposal did not seem profitable enough.. In exchange for agreeing to the oil embargo against Russia, proposed by the European Commission, Budapest demands billions of euros in aid from the EU. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto in a video message posted on Facebook estimated the rejection of Russian oil at 15-18 billion euros.