2024-07-09 19:29:24
(ANSA) – BRUSSELS, JULY 9 – “No contact before, no explanation after”. This is what European Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer said about Viktor Orban’s trip to China. Answering a Chinese journalist’s question about the “skepticism” towards the Hungarian prime minister’s mediation attempt, Mamer said: “Mediation by definition requires two parties and neither party, neither Ukraine nor Russia, asked him to mediate”. Twenty EU member states intend to confront Hungary tomorrow at the Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representatives, a body of the Council of the European Union) after Orban’s solo peacekeeping missions. The accusation – as far as we know – is that of disloyalty. In fact, the Hungarian prime minister, in some of his statements in Moscow “went directly against the conclusions of the European Council”. “How can this be reconciled with the principle of loyal cooperation?”, wonders a diplomat. “Poland is unleashed”, assures another source. The states also want to send a “clear” message about the deliberate confusion generated by Orban between acting as the leader of a single country and on behalf of the presidency. And again, according to diplomatic sources questioned about tomorrow’s meeting of EU ambassadors, Orban “is trolling and playing games”, his intentions “are clear to all members of the EU Council, but there could be negative consequences or confusion on the international level”. This is why “the new discussion at Coreper is important: we want to show him a yellow card and say that we have understood his games or his bullshit”. “There is no peace plan by Orban, there is Putin’s war project”, the same sources note in this regard, underlining the intention, at the next Coreper, to “send a clear signal that Orban does not represent the EU or the rest of the EU member states”. (ANSA).
2024-07-09 19:29:24