PM not connected with MOL decision on Nabucco, says minister

Hungary's development minister Zsuzsanna Nemeth rejected a charge by the opposition Socialist party that the prime minister had been involved in a decision by Hungarian oil and gas company MOL to withdraw from the project. In response to a written question by Socialist party leader Attila Mesterhazy and deputy head of the party's parliamentary group Istvan Jozsa published on Tuesday, Nemeth said it was not Prime Minister Viktor Orban who had first related the news of MOL's departure from the consortium.