Speaking on Jan. 10 at the Fidesz party congress, and broadcast nationally, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that the “war fanaticism” of the U.K. and France was “throwing Hungary into the greatest danger.... Last weekend, a statement was released in Paris announcing the two European nuclear powers’ decision to send their troops to Ukraine. Essentially, this means that the European nuclear powers are starting a war. Their goal, let us be clear, is to engulf all of Europe in flames.”
Szijjarto told the party congress that the EU viewed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as “the only obstacle” to its plans and was seeking to replace him with a pro-Ukrainian leader in April’s scheduled parliamentary elections. So, he challenged them: “If we win the election, we will stay out of the war. If we do not win, then the Brussels-Kiev plan will be implemented.”
