The European left \u2013 led by the German left \u2013 is once again attacking Hungary in a contemptible manner. This time it is for our country\u2019s refusal to sign a politically inconsequential and frivolous joint declaration on Hong Kong. For that is what it was. And if it is presented another hundred times, the same result will be repeated a hundred times over.<\/p>\n
Hungary\u2019s position is that there must be an end to the preoccupation in Brussels with concocting and flaunting declarations. We understand if \u2013 for domestic, internal political reasons \u2013 a Member State wants to present a piece of paper bearing the EU logo. But there is a limit to this. In recent years this common foreign policy approach, motivated by domestic political considerations, has led to the European Union\u2019s foreign policy stance becoming a laughing stock. When eight of our joint declarations have been swept aside, as has happened with China, the ninth will simply be greeted with more mockery. We look like pathetic paper tigers, and our ineffectual declarations are cues for laughter from the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
It is high time for Europe\u2019s real leaders, its real shapers of foreign policy \u2013 the heads of state or government \u2013 to bypass declaration-generating foreign policy bureaucrats and take the big strategic issues into their own hands, as they did most recently in the European Council on the subject of Russia.<\/p>\n
As far as Europe\u2019s policy on China is concerned, we believe that we must prevent the reemergence of Cold War policies and culture in world politics.<\/p>\n
A resumption of the Cold War is also contrary to the interests of Europe, Central Europe and Hungary. We need development, green development and digital development. We need cooperation, investment, trade and cultural and scientific relations \u2013 not boycotts, sanctions, sermons and lectures.<\/p>\n
As it has done to date, Hungary will continue to do its utmost in order to develop international cooperation. We will exercise our rights guaranteed by the European Union\u2019s founding treaties, we will act in accordance with the principle of loyal cooperation, and we will work to restore Europe\u2019s influence and authority in foreign policy. We will support initiatives to develop Europe\u2019s strategic sovereignty and autonomy. To do this, we must first curb the European left\u2019s deranged adventures in foreign policy.<\/p>\n
Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/em> \u2014<\/p>\n Translation provided by the International Communications Office of the Hungarian government.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European left \u2013 led by the German left \u2013 is once again attacking Hungary in a contemptible manner. This time it is for our country\u2019s refusal to sign a politically inconsequential and frivolous joint declaration on Hong Kong. For that is what it was. And if it is presented another hundred times, the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPrime minister of Hungary<\/p>\n