It is a deal that has divided Hungary.<br /><br />As parliament backed controversial plans to expand the country’s only nuclear power plant, opposition Green MPs made their objections clear. <br /><br />While some raised the alarm, disrupting the parliamentary session by holding up loudspeakers, others held up signs saying “Hungary sold and indebted” and “We will not become a Russian nuclear colony”.<br /><br />Moscow is to lend Budapest up to 10 billion euros in a nuclear cooperation accord struck last month between Presidents Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin.<br /><br />It will see two new reactors built at the Paks plant which provides 40 percent of Hungary’s electricity.<br /><br />Already heavily reliant on Russia for energy, Hungary will, critics say, become fully dependent in future.<br /><br />There are also claims that the deal was shrouded in secrecy, with fair competition principles flouted.
