Andreja

We can no longer pretend that Viktor Orbán is simply a 'difficult' EU partner. He has fundamentally broken his contract with the European community. Transcripts reveal a shocking level of subordination to the Kremlin that is utterly disqualifying for any EU member state. Recordings capture Szijjártó reporting to Lavrov during breaks in EU Council meetings. In these exchanges, Szijjártó is heard providing "direct reports" on confidential EU discussions and even asking for "patience" while he completes specific tasks. These recordings don't just suggest a preference for Russian interests. They prove a master-servant relationship that compromises the security of the entire European Union. There is a word for a government that takes orders from a foreign aggressor while reaping the benefits of European solidarity: betrayal. Polish PLDonald Tusk: "What we heard today, and what we had already suspected, is merely a confirmation of a very disturbing political dependency—the dependency of Viktor Orbán’s government and his Foreign Minister, Mr. Szijjártó, directly on the Moscow authorities. It has been a long time, if ever in my life, since I heard something so sad. What these recordings revealed is not just the fact of a political dependency between the government in Budapest and Moscow, but it also showed how unacceptable and how peculiar this relationship is. Just listen: the Foreign Minister of a European country, a member of the European Union, reports to the Russian Foreign Minister on the completion of a task and asks for patience because he knows he still has a few more tasks to perform. I mean, one could not have expected anything more disgusting. This is absolutely disqualifying. And I have the impression that while the Hungarians—you know, Poland loves Hungary, Poles love Hungarians. This is a friendship that has survived decades and centuries. And that is why it is so important to me that everyone in Hungary also hears that nothing has changed here, and that we are happy to be members of the European community together with the Hungarians. What is sad is that Viktor Orbán’s government—certainly Viktor Orbán and Minister Szijjártó—left that European Union a long time ago."