Croatia offers long-term energy security to Hungary, Slovakia

Croatia can ensure long-term and reliable energy supply to Hungary and Slovakia via the Adriatic Oil Pipeline, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in Kyiv, calling on Budapest and Bratislava to tell this to their citizens as well.

“Regarding the possibility for Croatia to fully supply both Hungary and Slovakia with energy, there are no doubts, and we have been communicating this to our partners — both Hungarians and Slovaks, as well as the European Commission — all this time. What is at stake is that so far there has been a commercial arrangement between MOL and partners in Russia to buy cheaper Russian oil, which through the Druzhba pipeline directly via Ukraine reaches refineries in Hungary and Slovakia,” Plenković told journalists in Kyiv on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Plenković called on friends in Hungary and Slovakia to explain to their citizens that they are not energy insecure and that all the oil they need can be organized through JANAF via Croatia, CE Report quotes HINA.

“We are here to ensure that their energy supply is long-term, stable, and reliable — not through a pipeline that is secondary, but through a pipeline that can easily be primary and even the only one, if they wish,” the prime minister stressed while attending the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in Kyiv.

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