Government will protect Hungary’s security, says foreign minister

The government will not retreat and it will make every effort to protect Hungary’s security, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in response to recent remarks by French Minister for European Affairs Nathalie Loiseau.

In an interview with French magazine L’Obs, Loiseau said a historic fight must be fought against the Hungarian government because Hungary is on the wrong path and Europe’s radicals must be stopped.

She added that the rule of law was under threat in Hungary, a decrease in press pluralism represented a problem and the judicial system was also under threat.

Szijjártó said in a statement that a minister of the French government openly despised and attacked Hungary. She wants to tell Hungarian people how they should live and she cannot accept that at the last democratic election (in April), a sweeping majority of Hungarians voted for the government of Viktor Orbán for the third consecutive time, he added.