Fidesz MEP Kinga Gál said “attacks” against EU commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement Olivér Várhelyi “are a political tool of the European left” to exploit strategically important EU enlargement policy as part of their “cheap political games”.
In a statement, Gál called it “absurd” that the EP’s Committee on Foreign Affairs had proposed an investigation against Várhelyi in its annual report on the implementation of the EU’s common foreign and security policy. “In his statements, Olivér Várhelyi has always represented the European Union’s position, consistently applying democracy and the rule-of-law conditions in line with the revised methodology,” Gál said, highlighting the commissioner’s “indisputable” professional achievements and his key role in “giving new impetus” to the integration of the Western Balkans. She insisted the report had levelled “unacceptable politically motivated” criticism against Hungary, insisting that this was “part of a witch-hunt that has been going on for years because we support peace and object to proposals that support illegal migration and eliminating the sovereignty of EU member states.”