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by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office Michael Roth gives a media statement, in Berlin, Germany, June 16, 2020. Photo: Markus Schreiber / Pool via Reuters.
Hungary’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the German ambassador to a Monday meeting to explain remarks by his country’s European Union minister in which he accused Hungary of antisemitism, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a statement on Sunday.
Szijjarto rejected the accusations but did not specify where the comments by Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth were published.
His spokesman, however, told Reuters that Szijjarto was referring to an interview with website t-online.de published late on Friday in which Roth criticized Hungary and Poland for an erosion of democratic culture and also said one aspect that “led to the Article 7 case against Hungary was rampant antisemitism in Hungary.”
The EU invoked Article 7 of its governing treaty against Hungary in 2018, having invoked the procedure for the first time against Poland in 2017, for flouting the rule of law. The process could lead to the suspension of their EU voting rights if all other capitals agreed.
In the past few years, Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in power since 2010, has also angered the EU with his harsh anti-immigration stance and a 2017 campaign against US financier George Soros which critics said had anti-Semitic undertones. The government rejected that accusation.
Orban has pledged zero tolerance for antisemitism.
Szijjarto said on Sunday that the Jewish community was safe in Hungary, and shrugged off Roth’s remarks, calling on him “to stop the unworthy attacks on the Hungarian people.”
