According to the Financial Times journalist, the hypocritical hypocrisy of Brussels is indisputable.
Henry Foy, head of the Financial Times' Brussels office, admitted in the FT's morning newsletter :
Viktor Orbán is right.
According to him, Orbán's Wednesday "performance" in the European Parliament was "political theater", during which he "performed his usual Eurosceptic rhetoric, accusing Brussels of using "political weapons" against him and other right-wing politicians".
"but Orbán's statements about Russia hit a sensitive spot about the hypocrisy of the EU".
According to Foy
"when MEPs criticized [Orbán] for his attraction to Russian trade relations, Orbán hit back by saying that EU exports to certain Central Asian countries — widely seen as intermediaries for Russian imports — are €1 billion a month higher than Ukraine's before a full-scale invasion against, suggesting the evasion of extensive sanctions.”
The head of the FT's Brussels office noted that Orbán also cited a study according to which Western countries' purchases of Russian crude oil have increased since 2022, which will enrich the Russian budget by billions.
"And after von der Leyen condemned him for a visa program used to get Russians into Hungary, Orbán pointed out that the 7,000 Russians working in Hungary are dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands of Russians working in Germany, France and Spain."
And this is where Henry Foy got to the point:
“Orbán's accusations of hypocrisy should be taken seriously by mainstream EU leaders, who often blame him for Brussels not being tough enough on Moscow.
Maybe that's not entirely true after all."
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