But sometimes combatting Brussels necessary to thwart decisions that don’t take Hungary’s interests into consideration, Gergely Gulyás said in an interview with public media website hirado.hu. On the topic of energy, he said it was impossible to replace Russian oil imports at this point despite the fact that the Hungarian government had done everything in its power over the last several years to secure alternative energy sources. Diversifying energy sources has been a constant goal for Hungary since the change of regime over three decades ago, he said. “While Hungarian post-Communist governments all paid lip service to diversification, we were the ones to do the most … While the country could import gas only from Austria and Ukraine when we came to power in 2010, we now have interconnectors with six of our seven neighbours,” he said. “The problem is that over the last thirty years Europe has failed to satisfy the demand … for alternative sources of raw materials and energy,” Gulyás said. “Until alternative sources are in place, we’ll be heavily dependent on Russian oil and gas.”