Another hard US criticism towards Hungary

According to origo.hu, the American diplomacy would like to see trials in corruption cases – US Ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell said in an interview. She repeated they were also concerned about the discourse in connection with the refugees.

“Please, bring the corrupt individuals to justice. We are concerned about the Hungarian press freedom and about the way some people talk about refugees” – Colleen Bell told the newspaper Nepszabadsag. She thinks there has been progress in the relationship between the government and NGOs, and she would like this trend to continue.

She responded to the fact that according to foreign minister Peter Szijjarto, the USA wants more immigrants in Europe. Colleen Bell said the success and the security of Europe is the USA’s national security interest.

According to origo.hu, the ambassador will criticize the government in the coming months. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade was not surprised, they expected it.

Colleen Bell has been the US ambassador to Hungary for almost a year, but she has not yet made such a harsh criticism against the Hungarian government as in her speech at the Corvinus University.

On Thursday, Peter Szijjarto, responding the speech, said the USA wants to  see immigrants in Europe. Janos Lazar said Colleen Bell’s behavior was irritating. According to prime minister Viktor Orban, the speech was about “the policy of force, about naked imperial interests”.

based on the article of origo.hu
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