Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán said the European Union had set autumn 2027 as the deadline to end imports of Russian gas. In an interview published on November 3, she discussed alternative supply routes being considered by Budapest. The deadline is part of EU energy policy; it does not mean Hungary has already stopped buying Russian gas.
Orbán said diversification depended not only on the availability of suppliers but also on the capacity of pipelines and entry points into Hungary's network. She cited possible expansion of Croatia's liquefied natural gas terminal and its connecting pipeline, a north–south corridor via Greece, and the capacity of LNG terminals in Poland and Lithuania. She noted existing infrastructure constraints and the need to expand throughput.
In the oil sector, Hungarian company MOL is preparing for possible technical modifications to its refineries that would allow them to process non-Russian crude supplied via Croatia's JANAF pipeline in the future. Orbán stressed the need for sufficient capacity along the alternative route. Her remarks did not indicate that the transition had been completed.