Szijjártó calls European Parliament VP ‘Hungarophobe’
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has slammed as “ridiculous” a suggestion by the European Parliament’s vice-president that the BMW factory in eastern Hungary should relocate to Romania, saying that the “political blackmail” of German businesses investing in Hungary had been “a complete failure”.
Responding to questions at a joint press conference with his Yemeni counterpart, Szijjártó called EP Vice-President Katarina Barley “Hungarophobic” over her suggestion that BMW should move its factory to Romania.
He said attempts by “certain political forces” to blackmail German companies investing in Hungary had failed, arguing that more and more German businesses were coming to Hungary and most of them had a good working relationship with the government.
He said the construction of the BMW plant in Debrecen was on schedule and would be a key element of Hungary’s electromobility strategy.
“It’s the German Socialists — and sometimes I get the feeling that the Hungarian left, too — who want these job-creating high-tech investments to be realised in Romania rather than Hungary. Fortunately this isn’t up to them, but hinges on the decisions of the investors and their cooperation with the government,” Szijjártó said.
He said that “despite the efforts” of Barley and the Hungarian left, investments in Hungary this year were on course to double that of last year’s record-high figures.
As we reported earlier today, a Hungarian plane was the first to land in the new Transylvanian airport: read more HERE.
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Perhaps it is just people highlighting geopolitical risk – it is definitely a thing (I get to defend Hungary at any meeting…):
https://www.allianz.com/en/economic_research/publications/country-risk/hungary.html
Then there is the whole ESG discussion: “nstitutional investors looking to adhere to ESG principles face heightened challenges when looking at illiberal democracies”:
https://www.maplecroft.com/capabilities/geopolitical-and-country-risk/insights/hungary-israel-poland-and-turkey-continue-their-democratic-backslide/
The EU cannot tolerate Conservatism. It threatens the globalists’ and socialists’ total power grab. It is important to control EU population, it already started with lack of free speech on many subjects, support for tribalism like the alphabet people.
Barking Dog Szijjarto is facing a quite serious EU examiner of the Rule of Law question regarding Hungary. I would beware anything any member of Fidesz claims someone has said without seeing an actual quote or outside confirmation and I can find none here. There is a high probability that Szijjarto has misrepresented something Barley said. At the same time for sure German companies should consider alternative countries for investment if they are subject to blackmail by governmental authorities in Hungary and this problem has been laid out in a Der Spiegel article months ago.
KATERINA BARLEY: She graduated with a French law degree (Diplôme de droit français) in 1990 and a German law degree in 1993. In 1998 she earned a doctoral degree in European law at the University of Münster. Supervised by Bodo Pieroth, her thesis was on the constitutional right of citizens of the European Union to vote in municipal elections. She was also a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG). In 2014, she was appointed to serve on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel, sworn in on 14 March 2018. EU VP and she also joined the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, where she is a member of the Democracy, Rule of Law & Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group.[19] Since 2021, she has been part of the Parliament’s delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe