The bilateral relations between Poland and Hungary have gone from bad to worse.
Before ending last-year’s EU presidency, Hungarian Prime Minister and conservative champion Viktor Orbán said that Poland’s current ‘liberal-Eurofanatic-Globalist’ led by PM Donald Tusk had been ‘installed’ by the EU to replace the previous conservative rule – and warned that now, the Brussels establishment was trying to replace him.
When Poland succeeded the Hungarians on the rotating EU Presidency, in January, they went out of their way to insult them diplomatically, uninviting their ambassador to the inaugural ball, as you can read on Globalist-Liberal Tusk Government in Poland Disinvites Hungarian Ambassador, Says PM Orbán Is ‘Not Welcome’ in the Gala Ball Launching Warsaw’s Turn at Rotating EU Presidency.
Since then, a compounding factor in the crisis has arisen, when Ukraine shut down the flow of Russian gas throughout their territory, creating an energy crisis not only in Hungary, but also in Slovakia.
Orbán is threatening to block the renewal of the hundreds of EU sanctions against Russia unless the energy issue is resolved – since the Hungarian economy was badly hit by these sanctions, to begin with.
Now, self-appointed EU ‘enforcer’ Polish PM Tusk has come out swinging, warning that Orbán will be treated ‘as if he is on Russia’s side’ and will face ‘consequences’ as a result.
RT reported:
“The EU has imposed 15 rounds of economic penalties on Russia since the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022, freezing Moscow’s sovereign assets and severing almost all trade and energy links between the bloc and Russia. These sanctions must be renewed every six months with the unanimous consent of all 27 EU member states, with the next deadline on January 31.”
But Orbán threatens to ‘pull the handbrake’ on this renewal unless Kiev continues the transit deal with Russia’s Gazprom and allow Russian gas flow into the EU via its territory.
That’s enough for Tusk to go ballistic.
“’If Viktor Orban really blocks European sanctions at a key moment for the war, it’ll be absolutely clear that in this big game for the security and future of Europe, he is playing in [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s team, not in ours’, Tusk wrote in a post on X on Saturday. ‘With all the consequences of this fact’.”
The response from the Hungarian side came just as harshly.
“’It may be difficult for Soros’ agent to understand, but when it comes to teams, we play for the Hungarian team’, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto responded on Facebook, accusing Tusk of doing the bidding of billionaire liberal financier George Soros.
‘We do not want to continue paying the price for other people’s wars and will not allow anyone to endanger the security of our energy supply, because Hungary comes first for us’, Szijjarto added.”
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