Acting Slovak MFA Miroslav Wlachovský. (source: SME - Marko Erd)
Acting Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Wlachovský has slammed his Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó for a remark about the EU and the war in Ukraine from last weekend.
In a video posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), the latter said that the EU believed the war would last four more years. He also asked how many people would still have to suffer.
In his reply on Sunday, the Slovak MFA asked Szijjártó "not to tell what other people think before he asks them." Wlachovský reminded his colleague that the EU has 27 member states, while he did not recall any debate that mentioned the continuation of the war in Ukraine another four years.
"The war can stop tomorrow. The EU is not a problem, Russia is the problem," the Slovak minister stressed.
In his post, Wlachovský also used Hungarian. "Ruszkik haza! Legyen béke! 1956," he wrote. The Slovak minister reminded Szijjártó of the year 1956, when the Soviet Army brutally repressed the Hungarian revolution against the government's subordination to the Soviet Union.
Wlachovský's reaction came amidst a wider dispute. It started late July after Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán's visit to Romania. At this summer event held by the Hungarian minority, he called Slovakia a breakaway territory.
Slovak politicians and political parties slammed Orbán’s latest statements.
