Hungary lets Russians, Belarusians in the EU? Here’s FM Szijjártó’s answer

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday that operations of the “Brussels lies factory” were unceasing despite “its continual failures”.

He said on Facebook that the “attacks” on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s peace mission to Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing and Florida had “failed”.

Orbán’s visits were followed by talks between the defence ministers of the US and Russia, the foreign ministers of Switzerland and Russia, the foreign ministers of the US and China, while the prime ministers of Italy and Ukraine travelled to Beijing, and the Ukrainian president called former US President Donald Trump by phone, he added.

Szijjártó also insisted that Brussels’ “mask slipped” as it had failed to conceal its enthusiasm for the Ukrainian measures that resulted in two EU member states, including Hungary, facing severe energy supply risks due to the oil taps being shut off.

He said that after these “two failures”, Brussels bureaucrats had come forward “with another lie” suggesting that Hungary was letting spies from Russia and Belarus into the EU, he said.

“We have already clearly explained to the representatives of Baltic states why this was a complete lie, but it appears that facts do not bother either them or Manfred Weber,” he said.

“The EPP president’s Hungarophobia is known far afield: he’s in a huff about Hungarians and is unable to accept that he could not become the European Commission president. And it’s easy to see that he is frustrated by the stronger-than-expected unity of real right-wing parties in the EP,” he added.

Szijjártó said Weber “must obviously know” that every EU member state carries out for itself all the procedures linked to third-country citizens’ residency, employment and visa affairs. “These procedures in Hungary are strict, comprehensive and give absolute priority to national security interests,” he said.

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