FM Szijjártó afraid of ‘serious attacks against sovereign foreign policy’
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Hungary has to prepare for serious attacks against its sovereign foreign policy in the coming years, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said at the Tranzit festival in Tihany, on Lake Balaton, on Saturday.
Protecting Hungary’s sovereignty is not a “question of political ideology”, but a “matter of life and death”, Szijjártó said.
He said Hungary’s insistence on protecting its sovereignty had become the “antithesis of the liberal mainstream” and pointed to the range of means the liberal mainstream had adopted to squeeze out any other way of thinking, including political, legal and economic tools, and most recently “physical destruction” as in the case of the assassination attempts against Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and the candidate for president of the United States Donald Trump.
Szijjártó said Hungary had been able to keep its foreign policy focused on serving the interests of the Hungarian nation in recent years, while preventing the validation of external interests in Hungary, but he warned that the country needed to be ready for attacks on its political, physical, energy and economic security in the coming years.
He pointed to the international media and financing for NGOs, as well as procedures launched by Brussels and, most recently, an attack on new rules concerning Hungary’s National Card scheme providing residency for non-EU nationals. He noted that just 7,000 Russian nationals were residing in Hungary, while 20 times that number were in the Baltic states and the total for the whole EU stood over 1 million.
Szijjártó said the recently established Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament could act as a “line of defence” for Hungary’s political security.
In spite of the West’s pressure on Hungary to deliver weapons to Ukraine and train troops, the country has become the “last obstacle for wartime psychosis”, he said, adding that Hungary’s pro-peace stand would come under “extraordinary pressure” in September and October.
Perhaps Mr. Szijjártó should take a quick look as to how this whole “sovereign” works in an environment where Hungary relinquished much of its say in certain areas when we joined the European Union. Let´s start simple and consider Wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Foreign_and_Security_Policy
Oops. I guess our Politicians are kind of limited, all the rhetoric notwithstanding!
As usual, Hungary seems to insist on taking all the benefits of EU membership while shirking its responsibilities.
Szijjártó is spot on, as usual. The troll farm in the US embassy and abroad is working a lot to change our views. Szijjártó speaks the truth more than “old Joe” ever has, isn’t he facing impeachment now? Or is that just his son’s corruption case, which he is linked to?
How many millions have the Bidens accumulated due to their corrupt dealings? Not to mention the defense and reconstruction contractors that have agreements with Ukraine. Jeez, it seems like one country is getting rich from the war, I wonder who that is?