as Head of European Council.
Either the Hungarian government respects its current role in the EU or it should resign as chair of the EU Council, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag Michael Roth said on X criticizing Hungarian PM Viktor Orban’s visit to Russia, Report informs.
“It is a scandal that Orban is shamefully abusing the EU Council Presidency and traveling to Kremlin without a mandate. He is undermining the core principles of EU foreign policy,” Roth said.
Eurocrats got overemotional not only on the Hungarian PM visit with all his other diplomats and held a considerable press conference, but Victor Orban also initiated a right wing group he dared to call “patriots for Europe”.
The Danish People’s party and the Flemish nationalist pro-independence Vlaams Belang announced on Saturday that they would join, giving Patriots for Europe 23 MEPs – enough to meet the EU parliament’s threshold for formal recognition.
Other parties involved are the Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), the centrist ANO of former Czech prime minister Andrej Babis, the Party for Freedom (PVV) of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, Portugal’s far-right Chega party and Spain’s Vox.
Europe pretends that respects the Patriotic movement, yet their hidden intention is to dilute the patriotic sentiment that tend to assert local rights and autonomy.
With this formation of Patriots for Europe, Orbán is bidding to become the dominant hard-right force in the EU parliament. As well as campaigning for conservative family values and against immigration, the group would push to end European support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion.
Orbán’s participation at an informal OTS (Organisation of Turkic States) summit in Azerbaijan on Saturday was the latest event where he represented Hungary alone and not the EU, Borrell said.
“Hungary has not received any mandate from the EU council to advance the relations with the Organisation of Turkic States.”
Orbán has sparred with Brussels over his travels. “Are we allowed to have dinner, or do we need a EUCO mandate for that too?” his political director wrote on X/Twitter after the Moscow trip.