Poland to Orban: Leave the EU if it doesn't fit

Published 29 July 2024 at 17:22

EU. Poland's deputy foreign minister suggests Hungary leave the EU if the Hungarian government is unhappy with how it is being treated by Brussels. The statement has worsened the already tense relations between the countries, reports Remix News.

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Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski said on Sunday that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán may form a political union with Russia and its allies instead.

The liberal politician also accuses the government in Budapest of promoting an “anti-European, anti-Ukrainian and anti-Polish” policy.

– Why doesn't he form a union with Putin and some authoritarian states of this type? If you don't want to be a member of a club, you can always leave it, said Bartoszewski.

He continued:

– I don't really understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of organizations that they dislike so much and whom they accuse of treating them so badly.

Bartoszewski's comments were in response to criticism Viktor Orbán leveled at the new leftist government in Poland during a speech to ethnic Hungarians in Romania on Saturday. The Hungarian leader accused Poland of hypocrisy in his criticism of Hungary's relations with Russia.

– The Poles have a hypocritical policy. They criticize us for our relations with the Russians, and they themselves do business with Russia through intermediaries, said Orbán.

– I have never seen such hypocrisy on the part of the state, he added.

Bartoszewski, however, insists that Poland “does not do business with Russia, unlike Prime Minister Orbán, who is on the margins of the world community – both in the EU and NATO”.

Poland's left-liberal government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has angered to because of Budapest's opposition to Poland being compensated by the EU for military equipment donated to Ukraine.

Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski has argued that the conflict greatly affects the Polish-Hungarian relationship.

p>- There used to be a saying, “Poles and Hungarians are brothers”, but now we have a big family quarrel, he says.