“The Hungarian Government does not accept any kind of double standard, and the EU procedure against Poland is clearly based on a double standard”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said during a telephone conversation with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz.

In a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday, the Ministry’s Minister of State for Information and Hungary’s International Image Tamás Menczer wrote: Mr. Szijjártó held talks with his Polish counterpart be telephone after the EU procedure against Poland “took another turn for the worse” at a session of the European Union’s General Affairs Council in Brussels.

Mr. Szijjártó assured his Polish colleague of Hungary’s full support and indicated that the Hungarian Government does not accept any kind of double standard, and the EU procedure against Poland is clearly based on a double standard.

Jacek Czaputowicz thanked the Minister for his support and welcomed the renewed confirmation of the fact that Hungary will not support the introduction of any kind of sanctions against Poland.

(MTI)