Foreign minister: EU institutions should take ‘personal consequences’ after Brexit

Warsaw, June 27 (MTI) – Calls for European Union institutions to take the “personal consequences” after Britain’s decision to leave the bloc are “perfectly legitimate”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Warsaw on Monday.

The British government has already drawn the right conclusions from the vote concerning the personal responsibility its members had had in its outcome, Szijjártó said after a meeting of top foreign affairs officials of ten of the EU’s non-founding member states. EU institutions, however, have yet to do the same, he said.

Britain’s decision to quit the EU is a “failure” and a “truly unfavourable development” for the bloc, the minister reiterated.

Szijjártó said it was a “serious problem” that the UK’s vote to leave had not prompted EU leaders to consider what needed to change in the bloc. “It is completely wrong and a mistake” for EU institutions to want to continue on with the policies that led to Britain’s vote to leave, Szijjártó said.

The minister called talks with his colleagues in Warsaw useful but added that there were still disagreements on certain questions.

The meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania as well as high ranking officials from Britain, Austria, Spain, Slovakia and Slovenia.

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Source: mtva.hu