Hungary's Szijjártó accuses EU of lies regarding oil transit, migration policy

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has called the EU a "Brussels lie factory" because of its obstruction of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's peace initiative, its support for halting oil transit and accusations over migration policy.

Szijjártó made such remarks on his Facebook page on August 7, Caliber.Az reports.

He said the productivity of the "Brussels lie factory" had not been hampered by facts or the traditional summer lull, "and it is clear that the constant failures do not hinder its work either."

"For the first time, the Brussels lie factory attacked the [Budapest] peacekeeping mission after Viktor Orbán's trips to Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing and Florida. Brussels has also been exposed over the issue of the oil transit ban at the behest of the Ukrainians, leaving two EU member states, including our own, facing serious risks in energy supplies. After two failures, Brussels has come up with another lie claiming that Hungary is letting Russian and Belarusian spies into the EU. We have already lucidly explained to the representatives of the Baltic States why this is a brazen lie, but they do not seem to care about the facts, and neither does Manfred Weber (head of the largest European People's Party (EPP) in the EU)," he said.

Szijjártó also accused the EPP head of "Hungrophobia" and wrote that he was waiting to see what the EU leadership, the Baltic states or Manfred Weber would come up with "for the fourth time after they failed in the case of the third lie".