July 29, 2024 – 10:33 PM
Messaging between Hungarian and Polish foreign affairs has become difficult. On Monday night, Hungary's former close ally Peter Szijjarto shared on Facebook:
“We appreciate Polish diplomacy, which is why it is bad to see it sinking into a swamp of lies. So let us repeat it for the thousand and eleventh time: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán represented Hungary, not the European Union, during the peace mission. Maybe now you can understand.”
– The Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Affairs is taking office. The problem for Szijjarto is that the Polish leadership has made several sharp criticisms of Hungarian foreign policy in recent days following Viktor Orbán’s speech in which he criticized Poland. “It is difficult to make friends when someone acts selfishly,” Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said in an interview published on Monday. The politician also spoke of his incomprehension of how balancing Moscow and Brussels increases Hungary’s international influence, which he says irritates everyone. He added that the Polish leadership would not allow Chinese police officers to patrol the streets of Warsaw, but according to Sikorski, everyone lives their sovereignty as they see fit.
Earlier, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski told Orban: “We do not deal with Russia, unlike Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been pushed to the margins of the international community both in the EU and NATO,” he said on Sunday.
Perhaps Péter Szijjártó's reaction to these statements (although Bartoszewski actually He answered once on Sunday too.In his evening post, he once again stands by Hungary's foreign policy and Viktor Orbán's much-criticized “peace mission” in the West:
“Talking about isolation in the case of a prime minister and a government that is currently the only one in Europe capable of maintaining contact with the East and the West at the same time is not very wise. In any case, we are waiting for the return of our Polish brothers, to Central Europe.”
