Dispute over blocked Druzhba pipeline

Hungary is now paying the price for alienating its neighbours, journalist István Marnitz writes in Népszava:

“The Croatians – with Washington’s blessing – are not letting any oil into our only replacement pipeline, and the EU leadership is making no move to help us out of this mess – perhaps because of the insults we’ve been hurling at them for decades. Maybe it’s time to sit back and think. … I understand that Orbán sees Hungary’s future as that of a European exclave of a future American-Russian-Chinese anti-liberal alliance. But even if this were to actually come about, the question remains as to what happens until then. Because we are still surrounded by the countries that surround us. And that won’t change.”