“Hello to the European Parliament!”, He launched on his Twitter account.
“And there they said they were deeply concerned about corruption in Hungary,” he quipped, in a message accompanied by a 1981 photo of former US presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush laughing out loud.
This spade from the nationalist leader comes as Hungary is under threat of the freezing of several billion euros in European Union (EU) funds, due to reforms deemed insufficient against corruption.
Parliament is on the front line in this matter and regularly calls on the Commission to be firm.
In this context, Brussels maintained its recommendation on Friday of a blocking of 7.5 billion. It is up to the Member States to decide before December 19 to validate this proposal, reject it or modify the amount.
The European executive, which a few weeks ago still seemed to favor a conciliatory approach towards Hungary, bowed under “enormous political pressure” from the Strasbourg Parliament, had recently judged Budapest, which therefore rejoiced at the news of the weekend.
The vice-president of the institution, the Greek socialist Eva Kailiwas charged with “corruption” and imprisoned on Sunday in Brussels, in the investigation of a Belgian judge relating to large payments that Qatar would have made to influence decisions.
“In summary, the Progressive Alliance group has been fabricating lies about corruption in Hungary for years, and now their figurehead… is embroiled in the biggest scandal in Hungary’s history. EU,” commented Balazs Hidveghi, an MEP from Orban’s party, on Twitter. “A fine example of hypocrisy,” he castigated.