Gulyas: Hungary politics aims to find allies

Hungary's government aims to find allies and is never proud to be an outlier in "regrettable" debates in the European Union, but it is necessary in order to thwart decisions that don't take Hungary's interests into consideration, the prime minister's chief of staff said in an interview with public media website hirado.hu on Monday. On the topic of energy, Gergely Gulyas said it was impossible to replace Russian oil imports at this point despite the fact that the Hungarian government had done everything in its power over the last several years to secure alternative energy sources. Diversifying energy sources has been a constant goal for Hungary since the change of regime over three decades ago, he said.