FM: Suggestion Hungary is letting spies into EU is 'a complete lie'

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said on Wednesday that Hungary has “already clearly explained to the representatives of Baltic states” why the suggestion by “Brussels bureaucrats” that Hungary was letting spies from Russia and Belarus into the European Union was “a complete lie, but it appears that facts do not bother either them or Manfred Weber”. “The EPP president’s Hungarophobia is known far afield: he’s in a huff about Hungarians and is unable to accept that he could not become the European Commission president,” Minister Szijjártó said on Facebook. “And it’s easy to see that he is frustrated by the stronger-than-expected unity of real right-wing parties in the EP,” he added. Szijjártó said Weber “must obviously know” that every EU member state carries out for itself all the procedures linked to third-country citizens’ residency, employment and visa affairs. “These procedures in Hungary are strict, comprehensive and give absolute priority to national security interests,” he said.