The Hungarian government does not give in to blackmail, because it knows exactly that it is a political action - Zoltán Kovács, the state secretary responsible for international communication and relations, told the public media on Friday.
After the ministerial meeting of the V4 countries, the Secretary of State responded to the suggestion that "foreign journalists paint a distorted picture, such statements have also been made that Brussels applies double standards or punishes countries that do not behave as expected".
Zoltán Kovács said: the speeches reveal how this world works, among journalists, the flow of news, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
He added: the most surprising thing is that the "operating principles of the network" are not only revealed by one individual - journalists, former EU representatives or representatives of NGOs - but now we can also see this from a world organization that includes thousands of members of the world's newspapers and news services. counter global association.
It also has among its members the defining organs such as the Financial Times, Le Monde or the New York Times, Die Welt. Everyone was convinced of their opinion-forming power in the past decades, he said.
"If behind this there is an organized, political intention that can be used against individual countries (in the case of Poland and Hungary), in which anything can be achieved for money, with the financing of Soros foundations, then why are we surprised that the Can't the image of Hungary or Poland be positive?" he asked the question.
He stated: " these channels present news and distorted facts to the public for political interest and with bad intentions." And those media outlets that neither come here nor ask the people involved, take over and repeat what was produced by the former. "
"When this process has been going on for years, the end result is the state of the country's perception. So we can't be surprised to see such political decisions in the EU either," said Zoltán Kovács.
He went on to say that many people believe that interference in elections takes place in the form of large spectacular events. This is not out of the question, he continued, but the bad news is that the means and methods of interfering in domestic politics are continuous.
He added: in the past year, it became obvious that one of these forms of intervention is intimidation by withholding subsidies/resources, while everyone knows exactly that there is neither a unique nor a systematic problem with the rule of law in Hungary or Poland.
"However, this has been added to the palette as a political whip, a blackmail tool, with which you can flog governments you don't like from Brussels, EU institutions, the press, and NGOs," said the state secretary.
He noted that the most recent case was related to the child protection referendum; "the restoration fund applications and the applications submitted for the next seven-year period were called into question after Hungary adopted the Child Protection Act".
"We will not give in to blackmail, because we know for a fact that it is a political action," stated Zoltán Kovács, adding that behind it are networks and opinion makers "who have other political objectives and bad intentions towards Hungary in the past expressed many times in years and decades".
Source: MTI
Photo: MTI/Zoltán Balogh
