{"id":616778,"date":"2023-11-13T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=616778"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:31:52","slug":"hungary-asks-eu-to-take-action-against-bulgaria-transit-tax-on-russian-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hungary-asks-eu-to-take-action-against-bulgaria-transit-tax-on-russian-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary asks EU to take action against Bulgaria transit tax on Russian gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary has asked the European Union&#8217;s executive to open a legal procedure against Bulgaria over a tax it recently imposed on Russian natural gas passing through its territory, a government minister said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria believes the tax, which it levied in October, will reduce the privileged position of Russia&#8217;s state-owned energy company Gazprom in southeastern Europe and deter Russian influence in the region. <\/p>\n<p>But the tax has angered Bulgaria&#8217;s neighbour Serbia, as well as fellow EU member Hungary, which are heavily dependent on Russian gas coming mostly via Turkey and Bulgaria through the TurkStream pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary has asked the European Union&#8217;s executive to open a legal procedure against Bulgaria over a tax it recently imposed on Russian natural gas passing through its territory, a government minister said on Friday. Bulgaria believes the tax, which it levied in October, will reduce the privileged position of Russia&#8217;s state-owned energy company Gazprom in southeastern Europe and deter Russian influence in the region. But the tax has angered Bulgaria&#8217;s neighbour Serbia, as well as fellow EU member Hungary, which are heavily dependent on Russian gas coming mostly via Turkey and Bulgaria through the TurkStream pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}