Zoltán Kovács, State Secretary for International Communications, has said European Union institutions are using “financial blackmail” and “political retribution” against member states that refuse to take in migrants,.
Kovács' statement came on Twitter, reacting to a tweet by Project Syndicate which cited US financier George Soros as saying that Hungary and Poland’s veto of the EU’s next multi-year budget and post-pandemic recovery package “directly threatens the rule of law – and thus the bloc’s future”.
Referring to the “Soros plan”, Kovács cited Soros as suggesting in 2015 that countries refusing to take in migrants should be subjected to financial penalties. “Today we see financial blackmailing and political retribution operationalized by EU institutions,” he said.
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