V4 Committees Concur on Need to Move Away from Energy Supplies from Russia

Kosice, April 26 (TASR) - Members of Visegrad Four (V4: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) parliamentary committees on EU affairs concurred on the need to move towards halting oil, gas and coal supplies from the Russian Federation and thus stop financing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, chairwoman of the Slovak parliamentary committee on EU Affairs Vladimira Marcinkova (SaS) told TASR following a meeting of the heads of the aforementioned committees on Monday (April 25). "All the V4 countries have agreed on the need to maintain European unity on the issue of energy security and to seek ways to set themselves free from Russian energy raw materials as soon as possible," she said, adding that it's an uneasy challenge that can't be implemented from one day to the next. According to Marcinkova, there's a need to think of the Green Agreement, which is one of the EU's priorities, and try to adapt to the current situation and so-called green ideas. "At the moment, we aren't able to make the energy mix entirely from renewable sources, as we are dependent on the core. But the path to independence from this kind of energy must be part of our considerations on the future of the energy sector in Europe," added Marcinkova. ko/df