Orbán’s cabinet statements deepen the crisis between Hungary and Poland

Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said after a visit to Warsaw that Poland was living through “scandalous events”.

“If a patriotic government committed a tenth of the crimes being committed, Brussels would have launched all rule-of-law procedures at hand,” Szijjártó said on Facebook.

Szijjártó said Poland was seeing “the arrest of opposition lawmakers, political cleansing at courts, the unlawful removal of the public prosecutor, and the violent occupation of the public television”.

“Since all this is done by a government with unconditional loyalty to Brussels, no one is saying a word,” he added.

“It’s no wonder that the Polish opposition is growing stronger,” he said, welcoming the Polish opposition National Movement as part of the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament. “It’s a great win … that we belong to the same group and are working together against migration, for sovereignty, freedom, the protection of Christian values and families,” Szijjártó said.

He said he had an “excellent” meeting with Krzysztof Bosak, the deputy leader of the Confederation party group, of which the National Movement is also a member.

As we reported earlier, Hungary granted asylum to Marcin Romanowski, former Polish deputy justice minister, details HERE.

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