The minister, scheduled to travel to Russia, recently announced on his social media page that
a historic day in Hungarian-Turkish energy cooperation is approaching on April 1, when natural gas will start flowing from Turkyie to Hungary.
The contract specifies the transfer of 275 million cubic meters of gas in the next few months, making Hungary the first non-neighboring country that Turkyie exports gas to, the foreign minister added.
Turkyie has already played an important role in Hungarian energy security as a transit country, and from now on it will also be a source of energy supplies.
European Union figures show that in 2020, energy import dependency exceeded 50 percent in 16 EU countries. The countries with the highest dependency rates were Malta (98 percent), Cyprus (93 percent) and Luxembourg (92 percent). Countries with the lowest dependency rate included Estonia (11 percent), Romania (28 percent) and Sweden (34 percent). With a dependency rate 0.9 percentage points lower than the EU27 average, Hungary is in the middle of the EU average.
Cover photo: US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman (Photo: Arpad Kurucz)
