In a video message posted on his Facebook account on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described the climate protection talks held in Brussels as successful as they succeeded in creating a chance to ensure that poorer countries and poorer people will not be made to pay the price of the fight against climate change.

“We were successful because we created a chance for ensuring that any climate protection regulations to be adopted in the future will not require poorer countries and poorer people to pay the price of the fight against climate change,” the Prime Minister said after the EU summit.

Mr Orbán stated in a message recorded in Brussels that Hungary is a climate champion as it is among the countries which have reduced their carbon dioxide emissions most since 1990.

“We know how important the fight against climate change is, but we Hungarians are also aware that this has a price. And a high price at that, because this is an expensive business,” he said.

The question is who will foot the bill, this is what yesterday’s debates were about, he said.

The Prime Minister highlighted that they managed to ensure that the new regulations would not take money away from countries which are in the process of seeking to reach the EU’s general state of advancement.

It will be possible to create rules which will encourage the use of nuclear energy. There is also a chance for creating rules which ensure that climate protection will not result in a rise either in the prices of fuel, or in the prices of foodstuffs, the Prime Minister said.

“We did not win, but we created a chance for ourselves for a victory in the future,” Mr Orbán said.

The two-day summit of the leaders of EU Member States which began on Thursday focused on the plan for Europe to become the world’s first fully carbon-neutral continent by 2050.

(MTI)