Foreign minister: Europe’s challenges confuse certain countries, institutions

Budapest, May 19 (MTI) – The historic challenges currently faced by Europe have “deprived certain European countries and institutions of their common sense”, Hungary’s foreign minister said on Friday.

Speaking to MTI by phone from the sidelines of a meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Cyprus, Péter Szijjártó said European countries should be focused on honest and candid talks with one another “in these challenging times”.

“We believe that in times of such serious challenges and crises, European countries and institutions should focus on pursuing honest, candid and sincere talks with one another instead of using European institutions to single out certain European countries and mount unfair and unjustified attacks against them and make false accusations against them …” the minister told MTI.

Szijjártó lamented that countries that directly point out the threats facing Europe and offer real solutions to them were the ones being pressured.

“On the issue of migration, for example, the countries being attacked continuously are the ones that have made it clear that migration is a security issue and refuse to take in illegal migrants,” Szijjártó insisted.