The government’s actions serve to protect Hungarian interests in every respect, including national security, Tamás Menczer, the communications director of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance, said in a video on Facebook on Friday.
Responding to a question from commercial television channel RTL concerning a report that Russian intelligence services had infiltrated the Hungarian foreign ministry’s IT systems two years ago, Menczer said he did not discuss national security matters with the press.
Menczer said that like every other country, Hungary, too, was a target of attempted influence and intelligence-gathering operations, and it was the job of the relevant agencies to counter those attempts and take the necessary steps.
He noted that in 2015, news portal 444.hu had been the one to report that the United States had eavesdropped on then German Chancellor Angela Merkel, while Merkel had listened in on then French President Nicolas Sarközy. “There are even serious cases of NATO and European Union allies eavesdropping on each other,” Menczer said.
Former PM Gyurcsány brought the Russians into the secret service
“Unlike the left, we always act in line with Hungarian interests when it comes to matters of national security,” he said, adding that former Socialist prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány had “brought the Russians into the secret service, and if I recall correctly, someone was even jailed for this”.
Menczer said he was “extremely curious as to which secret service 444 cooperates with and who is funding it to release information that concerns and weakens national security” at a time “when one of the EU’s two pro-peace prime ministers is shot, and only one, Viktor Orbán, remains capable of action, and we’re protecting Hungary’s peace and security”.
Europe moving towards peace, development at stake in election
What’s at stake in the European Parliament elections is whether Europe will move towards peace and development, an official of the foreign ministry said on Friday. Levente Magyar told a press conference in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) in Romania that change was needed because European leaders could be doing more to bring the war in Europe to an end, but this was currently not happening.
Brussels, he said, had been hindering economic development, so the EU needed “pro-business leaders”. He expressed hope that in the elections this year Transylvanian Hungarians would strengthen their political positions in local governments, in Bucharest and in Brussels, saying that this would also strengthen the alliance between Hungary and ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania.
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