US EditionMagyar Accuses Orbán Officials of Shredding Confidential Documents
Magyar said the shredding was meant to hide sanctions records as he vowed to restore ties with Brussels and unlock billions in frozen EU funds.
- Péter Magyar, Hungary's incoming prime minister, accused outgoing Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of destroying or shredding documents related to EU sanctions and pledged to end Hungary's close ties with Russia.
- Leaked transcripts revealed Szijjártó offered to help dilute EU sanctions against Russia and regularly briefed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on EU foreign minister meetings.
- Magyar stated Hungary would stop financing the Conservative Political Action Conference and other right-wing institutions, calling the previous funding a crime that needed investigation.
- Magyar pledged to work with Brussels to unlock over $20 billion in frozen EU funds and end Hungary's status as a Russian puppet state.
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The outgoing Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó was accompanied to the Foreign Ministry building on Monday by a Russian who was unknown to the ministry, Ukrainian website Yevropejska Pravda reported, citing its sources. The reason for his presence was said to be the "purges" at the ministry and the destruction of sensitive documents, which the winner of Sunday's elections and the obvious future prime minister, Péter Magyar, spoke about o…
Newly-Elected Hungarian PM Says Orbán Was Paying CPAC, Calls It a ‘Crime’ That ‘Will Have to Be Investigated’
Screenshot via X. Péter Magyar, the Hungarian Prime Minister-Elect, announced that outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government had been paying CPAC, but he would put an immediate end to that — and even went so far as to call it a “crime” that needed to be investigated. Orbán conceded Sunday after Magyar’s center-right opposition party defeated him in a landslide, ending a 16-year rule. Orbán was criticized for numerous authoritarian moves …
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