歐盟阻撓匈牙利與俄羅斯核協議
The EU has blocked Hungary’s 12bn nuclear deal with Russia, a decision that is likely to inflame tensions between the Kremlin and Brussels.
The ruling from the European Commission is a setback for Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, who has courted the Kremlin despite the conflict in Ukraine.
歐盟委員會(European Commission)的這項裁決標誌着匈牙利總理維克托•歐爾班(Viktor Orban)的一次挫敗，在烏克蘭衝突中，歐爾班一直向俄羅斯示好。Russia and Hungary agreed last year to build two 1,200 megawatt nuclear reactors in the town of Paks, 75 miles south of Budapest, in a deal that would have extended Moscow’s commercial reach deep into central Europe. Contracts for designing, building and maintaining the plants were awarded to a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned nuclear group Rosatom in December.
去年，俄羅斯和匈牙利同意，在距布達佩斯特以南75英里的帕克斯鎮修建兩個裝機容量爲1200兆瓦的核反應堆，這將令俄羅斯的商業影響力深入中歐。去年12月，這些核電廠的設計、修建和維護合同授予了俄羅斯國有核集團Rosatom的一家子公司。
But critics of Mr Orban feared the deal would increase Hungary’s already heavy energy dependence on Russia.
但批評歐爾班的人士擔心，該協議將加大匈牙利對俄羅斯已然嚴重的能源依賴。Many EU officials also expressed concern that Moscow was using energy policy to divide Europe and undermine the bloc’s consensus on sanctions imposed on Russia over its actions in eastern Ukraine.
很多歐盟官員也擔心，俄羅斯正利用能源政策分裂歐洲，並破壞歐盟就俄羅斯在烏克蘭東部行爲對俄實施的制裁所達成的共識。Arguments have raged for weeks over the technical, financial and fuel provision agreements of the contracts with Rosatom. All nuclear fuel supply contracts signed by EU member states must be approved by Euratom, which imposes financial and technical requirements on fuel suppliers.
圍繞匈牙利與Rosatom簽署的協議中的技術、資金和能源補貼內容的辯論，已持續數週。與歐盟成員國簽署的任何核燃料供應合約都必須得到歐洲原子能共同體(Euratom)的批准，該機構對燃料供應的資金和技術有所要求。In the end, Euratom refused to approve Hungary’s plans to import nuclear fuel exclusively from Russia. Hungary appealed against the decision but, according to three people close to the talks, the European Commission has now thrown its weight behind Euratom’s rejection of the contract.
最終，歐洲原子能共同體拒絕批准匈牙利完全從俄羅斯進口核燃料的計劃。匈牙利針對這一裁決提出上訴，但據知情人士表示，歐盟委員會現在支持歐洲原子能共同體對該協議的反對立場。The decision, details of which were kept secret, came at a meeting in Brussels last week of all 28 EU commissioners, including Hungary’s Tibor Navracsics.
歐洲原子能共同體是在上週歐盟所有28位專員參加的一次會議上做出這項決定的，但決定細節仍未公開。匈牙利的納夫拉奇赤•蒂博爾(Tibor Navracsics)也參加了這次會議。The result is to block the whole Paks II expansion. To revive it, Hungary would need to negotiate a new fuel contract or pursue legal action against the commission.
這一結果將阻斷整個Paks二期項目的擴張。要扭轉形勢，匈牙利需要商議一項新的燃料合同或起訴歐盟委員會。The ruling throws a spanner in the works of a project that Mr Orban has put at the centre of his strategy to build closer links with Russia.
這項裁決將破壞歐爾班提出的、匈牙利與俄羅斯建立更緊密關係戰略核計劃的進展。“If the Russians now refuse to modify the original contracts, this will be the end of the road for the project,” said Javor Benedek, a Hungarian member of the European Parliament’s Green group. “The report is very clear that the fuel supply agreement does not comply with European law.”
“如果俄羅斯現在拒絕修改最初的合同，該計劃將沒有未來，”歐洲議會綠黨(European Parliament’s Green group)匈牙利議員亞沃爾•貝內德克(Javor Benedek)表示，“報告非常明確的提出，這項燃料供應協議不符合歐洲法律。”Mr Orban won 10bn in financial backing for the scheme from President Vladimir Putin of Russia in January 2014.
2014年1月，歐爾班贏得了俄羅斯總統弗拉基米爾•普京(Vladimir Putin)對該計劃的100億歐元資金支持。
