MOSCOW, July 16 Co-chairman of the right-wing party “Alternative for Germany” » (AfD) Alice Weidel said that Ursula von der Leyen should no longer serve as head of the European Commission due to the boycott of the Hungarian EU presidency.
Von der Leyen has not yet been re-elected to a second five-year term as head of the European Commission: voting on her candidacy will take place in the European Parliament this Thursday.
«Von der Leyen's attitude towards Hungary is scandalous. (Hungarian Prime Minister — ed.) Viktor Orbán's commitment to peace is in line with the interests of Europe. The fact that he also spoke with (Vladimir — ed.) Zelensky for this purpose , is almost not mentioned. Von der Leyen is more intolerable as chairman of the (European — ed.) Commission,” Weidel wrote on the social network X.
On Monday, European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said that the commission had cancelled. traditional visit to the capital of the Hungarian Presidency of the EU Council.
Earlier, Mamer said at a briefing that Orban’s visit to the Russian Federation calls into question the traditional trip of members of the European Commission to Hungary, which has assumed the presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months. Mamer also emphasized that despite the fact that Orban himself stated that he does not have an EU mandate for negotiations with the Russian Federation, “the context is obvious to everyone when the visit takes place five days after the start of the presidency of the EU Council.”
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