US EditionTrump Grants Hungary One-Year Exemption From Russian Energy Sanctions, White House Says
- On Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will meet President Donald Trump at the White House to seek exemptions from US oil sanctions and broker a Trump–Putin summit on Ukraine.
- Because Hungary is landlocked and depends on the Friendship pipeline, it received 80 per cent of its oil in 2024, exposing it to sanctions, Orbán said.
- Plans for a prior summit stalled when a Budapest-hosted Trump–Putin meeting collapsed last month after a call between Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Orbán met Putin at the Kremlin earlier this month saying the 'stakes were high.'
- Orbán aims to broker a ceasefire, which Kyiv disapproves of, while US sanctions on Russian oil seek to drain funding for Russia's invasion by targeting Moscow economically.
- Public signals ahead of the meeting include President Donald Trump saying last week, `We haven't granted one, but he's a friend of mine`, highlighting their shared populist right-wing policies and Orbán's early support in 2016.
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Despite U.S. sanctions against Russian oil companies, President Trump grants Hungary a one-year exception for obtaining energy from Russia, according to media reports.
US President Donald Trump has granted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban a one-year waiver from sanctions on Russian oil and gas purchases, after the two close right-wing allies held a friendly meeting at the White House on Friday.
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Orban: Trump Exempted Hungary From Sanctions
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after a visit to the White House on Friday that President Trump has granted his country an exemption from US sanctions on Russian energy. That would keep Russian oil and gas flowing to Hungary, the AP reports. Orban, a longtime Trump ally, had come...
U.S. President Donald Trump initially took Hungary from the energy sanctions against Russia. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto spoke on Friday after a meeting of Trump and Hungary's head of government Viktor Orban in the White House of a "comprehensive and unlimited exception to the sanctions on oil and gas" granted by the U.S. to Hungary.A U.S. government representative, however, told the news agency AFP that the exception would only a…
Hungary has reportedly been given the green light to continue importing Russian oil and gas, without risking sanctions from the US. The Hungarian exemption will be valid for one year, a White House official confirmed to the BBC.
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