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Talks aiming at agreeing an EU-wide ban on Russian oil imports have gone into a sixth day.
Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria are resisting approval and demanding special dispensations to accommodate domestic needs.
The main point of contention remains the ambitious timeline envisioned by the European Commission: a phase-out of all Russian crude in six months and all refined oil products by the end of the year.
Due to their entrenched dependency on Russian oil, the four countries argue they cannot make the switch to other providers in such a short period of time, without imperilling their national economies.
“There is still no proposal we could accept, and Hungary’s stance has remained unchanged,” Hungarian State Secretary Zoltán Kovács said in a short statement to Euronews.
The country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, had previously compared Brussels’s proposal to an economic “atomic bomb” because it ignored Hungary’s “circumstances”.
