'Utopian fantasy': Hungary's Orban dismisses EU climate policy plans


FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends the opening session of parliament in Budapest, Hungary, September 20, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday dismissed European Union plans to tackle climate change as a "utopian fantasy", and suggested green measures were pushing up energy costs in Europe.

"Raising the prices, having a new regulation, rocketing the prices to the sky, destroying the middle class," Orban said, referring to proposed EU climate measures, on his arrival to a summit of EU leaders.

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