欧盟阻挠匈牙利与俄罗斯核协议
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.
欧盟委员会(European Commission)的这项裁决标志着匈牙利总理维克托•欧尔班(Viktor Orban)的一次挫败，在乌克兰冲突中，欧尔班一直向俄罗斯示好。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，俄罗斯和匈牙利同意，在距布达佩斯特以南75英里的帕克斯镇修建两个装机容量为1200兆瓦的核反应堆，这将令俄罗斯的商业影响力深入中欧。去年12月，这些核电厂的设计、修建和维护合同授予了俄罗斯国有核集团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.
但批评欧尔班的人士担心，该协议将加大匈牙利对俄罗斯已然严重的能源依赖。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.
很多欧盟官员也担心，俄罗斯正利用能源政策分裂欧洲，并破坏欧盟就俄罗斯在乌克兰东部行为对俄实施的制裁所达成的共识。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.
围绕匈牙利与Rosatom签署的协议中的技术、资金和能源补贴内容的辩论，已持续数周。与欧盟成员国签署的任何核燃料供应合约都必须得到欧洲原子能共同体(Euratom)的批准，该机构对燃料供应的资金和技术有所要求。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.
最终，欧洲原子能共同体拒绝批准匈牙利完全从俄罗斯进口核燃料的计划。匈牙利针对这一裁决提出上诉，但据知情人士表示，欧盟委员会现在支持欧洲原子能共同体对该协议的反对立场。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.
欧洲原子能共同体是在上周欧盟所有28位专员参加的一次会议上做出这项决定的，但决定细节仍未公开。匈牙利的纳夫拉奇赤•蒂博尔(Tibor Navracsics)也参加了这次会议。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.
这一结果将阻断整个Paks二期项目的扩张。要扭转形势，匈牙利需要商议一项新的燃料合同或起诉欧盟委员会。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.
这项裁决将破坏欧尔班提出的、匈牙利与俄罗斯建立更紧密关系战略核计划的进展。“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.”
“如果俄罗斯现在拒绝修改最初的合同，该计划将没有未来，”欧洲议会绿党(European Parliament’s Green group)匈牙利议员亚沃尔•贝内德克(Javor Benedek)表示，“报告非常明确的提出，这项燃料供应协议不符合欧洲法律。”Mr Orban won 10bn in financial backing for the scheme from President Vladimir Putin of Russia in January 2014.
2014年1月，欧尔班赢得了俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)对该计划的100亿欧元资金支持。
