Polish official: Hungary should join authoritarian regimes if unhappy with EU
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Budapest should leave the EU and ally with Russian dictator
Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian regimes, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister
Teofil Bartoszewski suggested in response to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
Orbán's recent anti-Western speech, Polish RFM24
reported on July 28.
“I don’t really understand why Hungary wants to remain a
member of organizations that it dislikes so much and that allegedly treat it
badly,” he said.
“Why doesn’t he (Orban) form an alliance with Putin and
other authoritarian states of this kind? If you don’t want to be a member of a
club, you can always leave. This is definitely an anti-European, anti-Ukrainian
and anti-Polish policy at the moment”.
Bartoszewski also criticized Orban for blocking payments of
2 billion zloty ($0.5 billion) from the EU to Poland to reimburse Poland for
military equipment sent to Ukraine.
“We are not doing business with Russia, unlike Prime
Minister Orban, who is standing on the sidelines of the international
community, both in the European Union and in NATO.”
On July 27, in his annual speech at the 33rd Tusvanyos
Summer Camp in Romania, Orbán called the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions “an
act of terrorism carried out at the obvious direction of the
Americans.”
“Europe has given up defending its own interests,” he said.
“All Europe is doing today is following the U.S.’s
pro-Democrat foreign policy unconditionally … even at the cost of
self-destruction.”
He also argued that sanctions imposed on Russia “fundamentally
damage to European interests” by raising energy prices and reducing
competitiveness.
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