Alexey Belogoryev, Research and Development Director of the Institute for Energy and Finance, commented to Business FM on whether Donald Trump's position on Russian oil and gas imports to Hungary and Slovakia will change after his meeting with Viktor Orban:
"Slovakia and Hungary currently have no reasonable economic alternative to imports from Russia. Neither the European Commission, nor the EU as a whole, nor the United States can offer them this alternative yet. Trump may continue to demand that the EU as a whole stop importing from Russia, at the same time he will enter into the position of Hungary and Slovakia and will allow some exceptions. For Trump, these are the closest allies in Eastern Europe, politically understandable and close to him. Of course, from the point of view of an external observer, this is an obvious contradiction, but for Trump, it probably fits into some kind of more or less understandable, stable picture, and all this together somehow looks harmonious."
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