Russian “spies” from Budapest: The European Union will exclude Hungary from discussions on sensitive issues

The European Union has begun to limit Hungary’s participation in discussions on sensitive issues and is moving to narrow meeting formats. This decision is related to concerns about the leakage of confidential information to Russia.

This is reported by Politico .

According to sources, the EU is increasingly organizing meetings in limited formats instead of full sessions with the participation of all member states, in order to avoid disclosing details.

“In general, it is the not-so-loyal member states that are the main reason why most of the relevant European diplomacy now takes place in various smaller formats – E3, E4, E7, E8, Weimar, NB8, JEF, etc.,” said one of the sources.

It is noted that such formats involve the participation of a limited number of countries that are considered key in the respective groups. In particular, the NB8 unites 8 Nordic and Baltic states.

One of the diplomats also reported that, amid Hungary’s accusations of a possible leak of information to Russia, the EU may additionally classify some documents and data.

“This undermines trust, cooperation and the integrity of the European Union. This is a terrible situation. If Orban remains in power after the elections, I think the EU will have to look for other ways to solve this problem,” one of the sources told Politico.

It was previously reported that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó regularly called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during EU meetings and provided information about the progress of the discussions . This effectively allowed Moscow to obtain data from the European Union’s negotiations.

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