Viktor Orbán: "Does Manfred Weber think we are second class Europeans?"

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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sees the cause of his dispute with the European People's Party (EPP) also in the personal behavior of faction leader Manfred Weber.

In an incident two years ago he lost confidence in the German CSU politician Manfred Weber, Orbán said in an interview with WELT AM SONNTAG.

During Weber's visit to Budapest, they agreed “that I would support him in the election of the Commission President.

Only two days later Weber publicly stated that he did not want to become president with the votes of Hungary. "

According to Orbán, people in Hungary thought about Germans at the time: “What kind of man is he?

Does he think we are second class Europeans? ”According to Orbán, Weber's behavior was“ an insult to the Hungarian people ”.

The European People's Party (EPP) has suspended Hungary's Fidesz party since last year, also because Orbán was accused of reducing freedom of the press and the rule of law.

Orbán called these allegations "ridiculous".

Viktor Orbán, on the other hand, praised the German Chancellor and EU Council President Angela Merkel.

Your proposal for an agreement in the dispute over the EU rule of law mechanism was "brilliant", Orbán says in the interview.

She made it clear that such a mechanism should only be subordinate to the current EU Treaty.

This rule now enables further negotiations on the rule of law regardless of the vote on the historic 750 billion package of Corona aid.

Orbán: "That is a victory of reason".

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Hungary had previously threatened for weeks that it would block both corona aid and the EU budget for the coming years.

According to Hungary's Prime Minister, this was necessary because the original version of the EU Parliament lacked an “objective” legal definition for the rule of law mechanism.

With it "member states could have been forced under threat of financial sanctions" to "implement ideologically determined policies", said Orbán.

That reminds him of the actions of the "Central Committee" of the Soviet Union at the time.

You can read the full interview in WELT AM SONNTAG.

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Source: Welt am Sonntag