Donald Trump called Hungary's Orbán to discuss Russian oil imports

Published on 25/09/2025 - 11:58 GMT+2

Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed Hungary's Russian lipid imports successful a telephone telephone yesterday evening, Hungary's Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, has confirmed.

"The Prime Minister besides spoke with President Donald Trump recently, and they discussed respective matters, including the authorities of the war, the anticipation of peace, the authorities of the satellite economy, the concern arising from the tariffs, and, of course, the contented of Central European vigor supply. This happened a fewer hours ago," Szijjártó told reporters aft gathering with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

Earlier, Donald Trump demanded that each NATO allies suspend lipid imports from Russia to interruption Russia's warfare economy. He said helium was prepared to speech to Orbán astir the issue.

“He is simply a person of mine. I person not spoken to him, but I person a feeling that if I did, helium mightiness stop. And I deliberation I’ll beryllium doing that," Trump said earlier this week.

Orbán's furniture curate Gergely Gulyás discussed the contented of the telephone telephone during a property briefing successful Budapest connected Thursday.

"He made the American president alert of the Hungarian angles which marque for a rational determination successful the country's involvement and which are required to support inferior costs down. The President understood these aspects," Gulyás said.

The curate added that Hungary has fewer options to diversify its lipid supplies, arsenic determination is constricted capableness successful the Adria pipeline, which enters Hungary from Croatia.

Pressure growing on Hungary to springiness up Russian oil

Hungary's Viktor Orbán is simply a adjacent governmental state of Donald Trump successful Europe, arsenic the views of the 2 leaders align erstwhile it comes to migration and right-wing policies. But the latest propulsion by Trump to unit Putin into ending the warfare could harm Hungary's economical model, which relies connected inexpensive imports of Russian fossil fuels.

Besides the US administration, the EU is besides stepping up efforts to cease vigor imports from Russia. 

The Commission antecedently presented an ambitious roadmap to destruct each purchases of Russian fossil fuels by the extremity of 2027 at the latest.

But amid unit from Trump, Brussels has taken a measurement to velocity things up successful a caller sanctions package, which, if approved, volition bring the extremity of Russian LNG 1 twelvemonth earlier to 1 January 2027.

On Wednesday, the Commission besides revealed that it mightiness deed Russian fossil fuels with tariffs.

According to Hungarian vigor adept Attila Holoda, Hungary has capable capacities and alternate routes to regenerate Russian Ural oil, but this would endanger the profits of Hungary's Oil and Gas Company MOL.

"MOL cites method difficulties due to the fact that it does not privation to springiness up this profit," Holoda said.