Orban and Zelenskyj: Dispute over fan scarf – Hungary’s ambassador summoned | politics

Zoff because of a piece of fabric!

During the friendly match between Hungary and Greece (2-1), Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban (59) wore a fan scarf depicting his country’s 1918 border. Just stupid: The territory of the old Hungarian kingdom also includes parts of today’s Ukraine.

With his scarf, Orban broke a dispute with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj (44). On Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv summoned the Hungarian ambassador. “The promotion of revisionist ideas in Hungary does not contribute to the development of Ukrainian-Hungarian relations and does not correspond to the principles of European policy,” wrote a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv with unusual clarity on Facebook.

In Romania, which used to be largely part of the Hungarian kingdom and is still home to a large Hungarian-speaking minority, politicians did not find the scarf provocation at all funny either. “Irresponsible behavior by Viktor Orban, who showed up today with a scarf with a map of Greater Hungary. It is a revisionist gesture that puts Orban next to Putin, who also dreams of changing borders,” MEP Alin Mituta wrote on Facebook.

Relations between Budapest and Kyiv have long been strained over Orban’s pro-Kremlin stance. The Hungarian head of state only named the new ones on Friday EU sanctions against Russia as a “step towards war.” By “supplying destructive weapons, training Ukrainian soldiers on our own territory and sanctioning energy” the EU is endangering itself, Orban claimed.

In Kyiv one shouldn’t be happy about that … (nko)

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