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Privately, that’s the exasperated sentiment among #EU diplomats as #Hungary joins with #Slovakia to try and leverage EU rules to preserve access to a discounted product nearly everyone else has had to shun: Russian oil.

Everyone else in the EU has found ways to get off Russian oil, several diplomats fumed — it’s not their problem Hungary and Slovakia used a sanctions carveout to keep pumping it in. Hungary has even ramped up Russian oil imports.

https://www.politico.eu/article/youve-had-two-years-eu-eyerolls-at-hungarys-russian-oil-request/

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