Leaders from four central European countries have come together to tell the European Union they feel that nuclear energy is being discriminated against, and have called for the EU to support their nuclear expansion plans. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán made the comments on behalf of the Visegrad group of four countries - Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, known as the V4.
According to Orbán, the V4 nations feel that the EU is not providing the support to countries that wish to develop nuclear energy. The statement cautioned against over-regulation of nuclear energy and called for the EU's stance on the state funding of energy-related investment projects to be rethought.
All of the V4 nations have plans to increase nuclear capacity in the future. Poland plans to build its first nuclear power plant.
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