Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Teofil Bartoszewski suggests that Hungary should withdraw from the European Union and form an alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Suspilne reports.
This is how the Polish official reacted to Orbán’s words about the “hypocrisy of Poland”, which, according to the Hungarian prime minister, “does business with Russia through intermediaries”, RFM24 reports.
We do not do business with Russia, unlike Prime Minister Orbán, who is on the margins of international society, both in the EU and NATO, – Bartoszewski said.
Bartoszewski also noted that Orbán’s speech on Sunday was very negatively commented on by the US ambassador to Budapest.
It was an attack on Poland, on the United States, on the European Union and NATO, – Bartoszewski said.
According to the Polish official, if Hungary does not want to be a member of the EU, it can always leave the club.
I don’t really understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of organizations that they don’t like so much and that obviously treat them badly. Why doesn’t (Orbán) create an alliance with Putin and some authoritarian states of this type? It’s like this: if you don’t want to be a member of the club, you can always leave. Of course, this is now an anti-European, anti-Ukrainian and anti-Polish policy, – he said.
The deputy foreign minister reminded that Orbán is blocking 2 billion zlotys ($0.5 billion) that the EU should transfer to Poland as compensation for military equipment transferred by Warsaw to Ukraine.
We do not do business with Russia, unlike Prime Minister Orbán, who is on the sidelines of the international community, both in the European Union and NATO, – the Polish foreign minister emphasized.
On Saturday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán criticized what he believes to be the erroneous policies of the EU and the entire West, as well as Poland’s “hypocrisy”. Speaking from the rostrum of the Free Summer University in Transylvania, Romania, the head of the
Hungarian government also praised Donald Trump and defended Russia.
Orbán also accused Poland of changing the balance of power in Europe by weakening the Berlin-Paris axis in favor of a new configuration: London, Warsaw, Kyiv, the Baltic States, and Scandinavia. This would also weaken the Visegrád Group, which, in Orbán’s interpretation, was to be based on the recognition of a strong Germany and Russia and create a third important power. According to the Hungarian prime minister, this was to be the realization of the “old Polish plan”.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, reacting to the position of the Polish Foreign Ministry, said that Poland accuses Hungary of importing crude oil from Russia, while doing the same.
For a long time, we have tolerated the provocations and hypocrisy of the current Polish government in order to preserve the Polish-Hungarian brotherhood, but now the situation has changed, – Szijjártó wrote.
He noted that “the current Polish government criticizes and accuses us of importing oil from Russia, which is necessary for the functioning of the country,” although, according to him, the Poles are also among the clients of “one of the largest Russian oil companies”.
