Conservative champion, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the person the European Union likes to hate.
He has stated that the EU is the ‘unhealthy modern parody of the Soviet Union’, accused it to attempt to ‘blackmail’ Hungary, however assured that ‘there may be not sufficient cash on this planet to pressure us to just accept mass migration and to place our youngsters within the fingers of LGBTQ activists’.
Not solely that, however he had powerful phrases for the Liberal Polish authorities of Donald Tusk, saying that Poland’s Government and PM Tusk Were ‘Installed’ by the European Union To Topple the Previous Populist Leadership – And Now Budapest Is the New Target.
So, it’s not very shocking that Poland has determined to not invite Hungary’s ambassador to an occasion on Friday launching Warsaw’s time period within the rotating EU presidency.
This comes after Budapest gave asylum to a former conservative Polish minister who’s below investigation over alleged misuse of public funds.
Reuters reported:
“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was additionally not invited to the ceremony in Warsaw’s Grand Theatre, Deputy Minister for European Affairs Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka stated.”
Tusk is livid that Hungary granted political asylum in December to Marcin Romanowski, a Polish former deputy justice minister detained as a part of an investigation into ‘misuse of public funds’.
The president of a European rights meeting stated Romanowski had immunity as a member of the physique, so he was launched.
“’After we invited company to our gala nearly a month in the past, we invited the whole diplomatic corps’, Sobkowiak-Czarnecka stated in televised feedback on Friday.
‘However after the scenario with minister Romanowski, Minister (of Overseas Affairs) Sikorski determined that the Hungarian ambassador just isn’t a welcome visitor within the theatre at present’.”
Tusk and Portuguese President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, will give speeches on the ceremony that inaugurates Poland’s rotating presidency of the European Union for the subsequent six months.
Hungary held the presidency through the second half of 2024, and Orbán used the workplace to attempt to promote a peace settlement within the Struggle in Ukraine.
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