European Union leaders supported a plan to counter false news on the Internet, at a time when European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attacked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Urban as one of the main implicators in spreading false information.

The EU plan, approved Friday by the leaders of the 28-nation eurozone, aims to counter what the United States, NATO and the European Union consider as "Russian attempts to undermine Western democracies."

But the president of the European Commission said that "the Union should also consider among its ranks in its war on false information," criticizing the Hungarian Prime Minister, whose populist policies sparked outrage in Brussels.

"Some prime ministers sitting around the table are the origin of the false news. When Mr Urban says, for example, that migrants are responsible for Britain's exit from the EU, this is false news, so we should not place all responsibility on others," Yonker told reporters.

Since coming to power in 2010, Urban has used his parliamentary majority to press courts, media and NGOs in ways his opponents say are in breach of European Union rules.

Juncker supported the European Parliament when he voted for sanctions against Hungary for breaching Union values ​​on democracy and civil rights.

EU leaders agreed earlier on plans to set up an early warning system to alert governments and urged technology giants such as Facebook and Google to do more to delete misleading or illegal content.