Hungary’s incoming commissioner has pledged to keep his interests separate from those in Budapest, but the country’s prime minister doesn’t see it working that way
Hungary’s incoming commissioner Olivér Várhelyi has pledged to keep his interests separate from those in Budapest, but Prime Minister Viktor Orbán doesn’t see it working that way.
The appointment of Várhelyi as the next European commissioner for neighborhood and enlargement is Hungary’s “biggest diplomatic success of the last ten years,” OrbánThe new commissioner, who had been serving as Hungary's ambassador to the EU, received the support of members of the European Parliament after providing written guarantees he will be independent from his government.
The prime minister said that insisting on distancing oneself from national politics “is an old left-wing game, it’s not even worth taking it seriously,” and added that he would “never nominate for high international posts people who are not good patriots, and who cannot reconcile their own patriotism with the international assignment they take on.
Orbán also accused his European political family, the European People’s Party, of having experienced a “left-wing drift” — and said he could look to pull his Fidesz party, which is currently suspended from the EPP, out of the grouping if its direction doesn’t change. “If yes, we have a common future. If not, then we have to build another political community,” Orbán said.
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