Hungary accused of discrimination for discount fuel policy
Associated PressBUDAPEST, Hungary — A spokesperson for the European Union’s executive arm said Friday that Hungary was discriminating against citizens of other EU countries by offering discounted fuel to drivers of vehicles with Hungarian license plates while drivers of foreign-registered vehicles must pay market prices. At a press briefing in Brussels, spokesperson Sonya Gospodinova said the European Commission had received complaints from EU citizens who had “experienced firsthand discriminatory fuel prices” when they filled up at Hungarian service stations. Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, said in a Friday radio interview that EU rules against discrimination based on nationality were suitable for peacetime but “an extraordinary situation requires extraordinary measures”. Commission spokesperson Gospodinova said Hungary could not use the war in Ukraine to “serve as a justification to discriminate between citizens of the European Union, also indirectly based on their nationality.” ___ Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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