Polish Foreign Ministry responded to Orban’s anti-Polish statements: If you don’t like EU or NATO, form alliance with Putin
Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Teofil Bartoszewski responded to recent anti-Polish statements by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The diplomat expressed doubts about the need for Hungary's membership in the EU and NATO.
This was reported by the РАР news agency, Censor.NET reports.
Bartoszewski said that, unlike Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, his country does not do business with Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, "because it was an attack on Poland, on the United States, on the European Union and on NATO."
A representative of the Polish Foreign Ministry also characterized the Russian Federation as "anti-European," "anti-Ukrainian," and "anti-Polish."
"I don't really understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of organizations that they dislike so much and that allegedly treat them badly. Why doesn't he (Orban - ed.) create an alliance with Putin and some authoritarian states of this type? It's based on the principle that if you don't want to be a member of a club, you can always leave," Bartoszewski said.
In addition, the diplomat reminded that Orban is currently blocking 2 billion zlotys (467 million euros) intended for Poland from the EU as compensation for military equipment that Poland has transferred to Ukraine.
What preceded it?
The day before, during a keynote speech at the Tuscanos Summer University in the Romanian resort town of Beilei Tusnad, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban criticised what he considered to be the wrong policies of the EU and the West as a whole, as well as Poland's "hypocrisy".
Speaking from the rostrum, he said that "the Poles are pursuing a hypocritical policy".
"The Poles are pursuing a hypocritical policy. They criticise us for our relations with Russia, while they do business with Russia through intermediaries. I have never seen such hypocrisy on the part of the state," Polskie Radio quoted Orban as saying.
