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Hungary has rejected an offer from Croatia to use its pipeline system as an alternative to Russian oil imports, escalating a multipronged conflict with the EU.
The broadside from foreign minister Peter Szijjártó followed pressure from the European Commission for Hungary and Slovakia to wean themselves off Russian supplies more than two years after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
The two countries, along with the Czech Republic, have secured exemptions from an EU-wide ban on…