After meeting his EU counterparts, Szabolcs Takács, Minister of State at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office, said that the European Commission’s immediate attack on the Hungarian government’s latest information campaign is yet more proof of the link between the Commission and the Soros network.
For the fourth time, the agenda for the meeting between Member States’ ministers for EU affairs included discussion of the Article 7 rule of law procedure against Hungary.
Mr. Takács reported that Frans Timmermans, the Vice-President of the Commission, raised the issue of the Hungarian government’s campaign under the wrong agenda item, ignoring the rules of procedure, “having lost his self-control, and practically shouting”.
“The cat is out of the bag,” Mr. Takács said.
The Minister of State for EU affairs at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office called the Dutch commissioner the lead candidate of the “Brussels bureaucracy and the pro-migration elite”.
He stated that this elite want to turn the European Union into an immigrant continent – a mission in which they have found a partner in the Hungarian opposition. In order to win, he said, they are even willing to accept that the “Hungarian socialists have entered an alliance with the extreme racist and anti-Semitic party that is Jobbik.”
Mr. Takács added that Mr. Timmermans seeks to give the impression that he can represent the Commission impartially, but the remarks he made at the meeting burned with his hostility towards the Hungarian government.
“Mr. Timmermans’ performance today provides clear proof that he regularly meets George Soros and the NGOs supported by the Soros network,” the Minister of State said, adding that “This is the most tangible evidence that what we are saying is reality.”
Reacting to the allegations made by the Commission’s Vice-President during the meeting, Mr. Takács said the following: “With his antics today – especially after his campaign performance in Budapest this weekend – Frans Timmermans has proved that he is unable to separate his role in the Commission from his political ambitions; therefore, as the Hungarian government has requested, he should suspend his activities in the Commission.”
“The EU institutions that have been taken over by pro-migration forces fear that during the European Parliament elections the anti-migration forces will gain in strength”, Mr. Takács observed, “and therefore they are trying everything they can to force their policies onto Member States. They are subjecting countries opposing this to political blackmail, financial threats and manipulative pressure.”
During a joint press conference, Judit Varga, Minister of State for relations with the European Union at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office, called the meeting “another Soros séance”.
“The campaign by pro-migration politicians is continuing, the pressure is increasing, and they are ever more aggressively attacking Hungary on account of its anti-migration policy,” she added, referring also to politicised procedures and double standards.
In response to a question from MTI, she said that press statements issued to date indicate that the Finnish presidency of the EU – which starts in July – clearly has an interest in speeding up the Article 7 procedure.
She added that, for example, no one is talking about how, during his visit to Budapest the previous weekend, Frans Timmermans condoned the Hungarian “post-communist left’s partnership with anti-Semites”.