Lithuania warned in 2019 that Hungary posed NATO and EU leak risk, Poland says
The Straits Times
WARSAW, March 24 - Lithuania warned years ago that Hungarian officials posed a security risk within NATO, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, after a report that confidential information was being passed to Russia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WARSAW, March 24 - Lithuania warned years ago that Hungarian officials posed a security risk within NATO, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, after a report that confidential information was being passed to Russia.
Hungary has maintained warm ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin's government despite the Ukraine war, often dissenting from the EU's pro-Kyiv policies.
Poland's Tusk said information had come "from various places for a long time" about leaks to Moscow from closed‑door meetings of the European bloc and suspicions that information from the trans‑Atlantic military alliance was also being passed on.
"As early as 2019 ... Lithuania ... requested the exclusion of the Hungarian delegation from a NATO meeting, stating that there were suspicions that the Hungarian delegation would pass on information of the highest confidentiality to Moscow," Tusk told reporters before a government meeting.
According to the Washington Post at the weekend, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto had briefed his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov during breaks at EU meetings.
Szijjarto initially dismissed that as "fake news".
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