Watch: 'Scandalous, Misleading' - EC Vice President Excoriates Hungary's Anti-EU Campaign
- 19 Dec 2023 7:43 AM
Source: euronews.com
Source: euronews.com
The number of Ukrainian spies exposed in Hungary is growing, the minister heading the Prime Minister's Office told a regular press conference on Thursday. "The first was Szabolcs Panyi, who has been spying on his own country in cooperation with a foreign state, and the IT experts working for the Tisza Party," Gergely Gulyas said.
In the course of its investigation into political pressure and disinformation campaigns in Hungary, the Sovereignty Protection Office has identified journalist Szabolcs Panyi as a "network agent financed and directed by persons with Democratic Party ties in the European Commission and the United States," the office said in a statement on Tuesday.
The European Commission has activated a regulatory tool capable of restricting the content of social media ahead of the Hungarian election, Fidesz MEP Csaba Domotor said in Budapest on Wednesday. "After the oil blockade, here's the Facebook blockade."
Germany has openly threatened Hungary over its position on the Ukrainian oil blockade, but the government will not abandon national interests or allow Ukrainian actions to triple energy costs for Hungarian families, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Brussels on Monday.
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