Overview
- Hungary will sign an intergovernmental nuclear energy agreement with the United States that includes buying American fuel for the Russian-built Paks plant and adopting U.S. technology for on-site spent-fuel storage, the foreign minister said.
- Officials said the agreement is set to be concluded during the Washington talks and will also cover cooperation on small modular reactor technology.
- MOL said it could supply about 80% of its refineries’ crude needs via Croatia’s Adriatic pipeline if Druzhba flows are curtailed, cautioning that costs and technical risks would rise.
- Advisers told The Guardian that Orbán intends to urge President Trump to consider a meeting with Vladimir Putin and to seek relief from U.S. sanctions targeting Russian energy.
- Ukraine’s vice prime minister Taras Kachka said the discussion could raise Hungary’s veto on opening EU accession talks for Kyiv, while concrete outcomes from the talks have not been announced.