Hungary FM: We Won’t Let Hungarians Foot the Bill for Senseless Support of Ukraine

Brussels plans to send even more weapons and money to Ukraine, but the government will not allow making the Hungarian people pay the price for the senseless support of Ukraine, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said in Warsaw on Thursday.

The minister finally touched on the agenda item concerning EU-US relations, stating that he has heard a "ridiculous litany of complaints"  about how Washington allegedly interferes in the internal affairs of various countries. 

I find this ridiculous because it was actually President Donald Trump who put an end to the US government using US financial resources in various parts of the world to harshly interfere in domestic political developments,

he pointed out. He welcomed the stop in the flow of USAID funds used for political and ideological interference, emphasizing that no one objected when tens of millions of dollars were sent to the Hungarian opposition from the US ahead of the 2022 elections, or when former US Ambassador David Pressman insulted the government on a daily basis.

"Nobody complained about interference in domestic political matters when Manfred Weber made it clear that his wish was for a Tisza Party puppet government to be formed in Hungary," he said. "We also see that the European Union and Brussels still want to interfere in the internal affairs of member states. This is also the case in Hungary, where they have already named who they want to see in power. In the same way, we see that they are trying to replace the lost USAID funds with European taxpayers' money, and we reject this," he added.

Cover photo: Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto  (Source: Facebook/Peter Szijjarto)