Why are European leaders now afraid to speak up? <\/p>\n
The entourage of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is providing the Kremlin with detailed reports on EU Council meetings. This cooperation with Russia is not a surprise to European leaders.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This was stated by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing his social media X.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Also read:<\/strong> Provided “live reports” to Lavrov: Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 called Moscow directly from EU meetings, – WP<\/p>\n Data leak in favor of Moscow<\/p>\n The Polish Prime Minister commented on reports that the Hungarian side is informing Moscow in detail about internal discussions within the European Union.<\/p>\n According to him, suspicions about such activities have existed for a long time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “The news that Orban’s people are informing Moscow about the EU Council meetings in all details should not surprise anyone. We have long had suspicions about this,” Tusk emphasized.<\/p>\n He also added that due to the risks of information leaks, he tries to be as restrained as possible during meetings and only speaks out when absolutely necessary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n How Hungarian diplomacy informs Moscow<\/p>\n Recall that earlier The Washington Post reported that Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 regularly provided “live reports” to the Kremlin directly from EU meetings. According to journalists, the Hungarian minister called Moscow during breaks between meetings to inform the Russian side about the progress of discussions in Brussels.<\/p>\n Additionally, it became known about plans by Russian intelligence to stage an assassination attempt on Viktor Orban ahead of the elections in Hungary. The goal of this operation was to influence the voting results and strengthen the positions of pro-Russian forces.<\/p>\n At the same time, the Hungarian government reacted sharply to this information, calling the reports of a planned assassination “pro-Ukrainian propaganda” and denying any connections with the plans of Russian special services.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why are European leaders now hesitant to speak up? The entourage of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is sending detailed reports of EU Council meetings to the Kremlin. This information about such cooperation with Russia is not a surprise to European leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"magazine_newspaper_sidebar_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-en"],"yoast_head":"\n