The European Union may not be the “right reference group” for Hungary, considering the apparent divergence in views between Budapest and the bloc, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen suggested.
She accused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of giving the impression that he was representing the EU during his recent visits to Russia and China to discuss the Ukraine conflict, RT reported.
Speaking after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, Valtonen stressed that Hungary –which currently holds the rotating EU presidency– is not entitled to represent the 27-nation bloc as its foreign policy views “do not correspond to the official line of the union.”
“Of course, it is up to the individual country to do so,” Valtonen told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. “But at some point, it may be worth asking whether the European Union is the right reference group if the ideas differ so fundamentally from our common values.”
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Finnlands Außenministerin: Ungarn und EU passen möglicherweise nicht zusammen
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