Irritated by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s speech at the Băile Tușnad Summer University the past weekend, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister, Teofil Bartoszewski suggested that Hungary would do better to leave the European Union and NATO, which the Hungarian Prime Minister criticizes so much.
“Hungary, and not Poland, is the one doing business with Russia”, the Polish deputy minister said on Sunday, in response to the Hungarian Prime Minister’s accusations that Warsaw is pursuing a “hypocritical” policy towards Moscow.
On Saturday, Viktor Orban condemned what he called the wrong policies of the European Union, the entire West and the Polish Government towards Russia.
“The Poles are conducting hypocritical policies. They criticize us for our relations with the Russians, and they themselves do business with Russia through intermediaries. I have never seen such hypocrisy from the state,” Orban said.
“We do not do business with Russia, to unlike Prime Minister Orban, who is on the fringes of international society – both in the European Union and in NATO,” Bartoszewski said on Sunday, as a reaction to the words of the Hungarian Prime Minister, TVP World informs.
“Why doesn’t Orban create a Union with Putin and some authoritarian states like that? If you don’t want to be a member of a club, you can always leave,” Bartoszewski said.
He added: “I don’t really understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of organizations that she dislikes so much and that supposedly treat her so badly.”
Bartoszewski also said that Orban’s politics are currently anti-EU, anti-Ukrainian and anti-Polish, referring to the fact that Orban is blocking large sums of money that the EU would otherwise pay to Poland to reimburse Warsaw for military equipment transferred to Ukraine, adding that Orban’s speech was also commented very negatively by the US ambassador in Budapest on Sunday “because it was an attack on Poland, the US, the European Union and NATO”.
Orban also accused Poland of causing a change in the balance of power in Europe by weakening the Berlin-Paris axis in favor of a new configuration: London, Warsaw, Kiev, the Baltic states and the Scandinavian countries. In his view, this weakens the Visegrad Group, a bloc of four Central European countries that also includes Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
We all except the Polish did business with Russia before. Now there is only 1 doing it and they are a member of NATO. The Poles should better talk about the Turks!