In a Facebook post, Szijjártó noted that Hungary and Slovakia turned to the European Commission a week and a half ago over Ukraine’s decision to halt the transit of volumes of crude needed for the security of their oil supply. „Yesterday the executive vice-president of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis of Latvia, sent a letter to my Slovak counterpart and me,” Szijjártó said. „In this letter he said Ukraine was not endangering the supplies of either Hungary or Slovakia, and besides, there is another pipeline going through Croatia that we can use,” he said, calling the letter „outrageous”.
But he said Croatia „isn’t a reliable transit country” because it raised the transit fee of oil to five times the average market fees since the start of the war, „made it impossible for [Hungarian oil and gas company] MOL to contract long-term delivery capacities” and had not carried out the investments needed for increasing its pipeline’s capacities. He said the stoppage of oil deliveries from the east would leave Hungary and Slovakia „at the mercy of an unreliable transit country”.