Russian Fossil Fuels, Orbán and the Green Transition

Описание: Wojciech Przybylski unpacks the new United States national security strategy and its ‘chaotic hypocrisy’ towards Europe, then turns to Hungary to ask what an honest energy transition would really look like.

In conversation with Ada Ámon, executive director of the Budapest Climate Agency, this episode explores:

– How deeply Hungary is locked into Russian oil, gas and nuclear fuel

– Why successive governments chose cheap energy over efficiency and resilience

– How Hungarian households have already shown they can cut consumption by twenty to thirty per cent

– How EU funds were diverted away from citizens and into government buildings, weakening real climate action

– What smarter pricing, better incentives and local innovation could do for Hungary’s energy future

🎧 Chapters
00:00 Intro – why Hungary’s energy model matters
00:49 US national security strategy and ‘chaotic hypocrisy’ toward Europe
09:49 Hungary’s dependence on Russian oil, gas and nuclear fuel
16:43 Misused EU money, oligarchisation and lost efficiency gains
24:49 How Hungarian households game the system and save energy
29:47 What a genuine green transition would require

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This podcast is a part of our Europe Future Forum Polish-Hungarian Perspectives project. Through a programme of meetings with experts, political advisers and opinion leaders from both countries, we aim to explore Poland’s and Hungary’s perspectives on the transformations underway in the European Union at the threshold of an age of economic warfare. Supported by the Wacław Felczak Institute for Polish-Hungarian Cooperation.

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