Many people in Brussels admire and praise Hungary in private, but castigated in public, wrote Zoltan Kovacs, the Hungarian government's spokesperson, to Politico as an answer to the political newspaper's article last week, titled “‘Hungarian? Who, me?’: Confessions of Brussels pariahs”.
Mr Kovacs described Politico's statements as “incontrovertible tittle-tattle and rumor, such a well-crafted, monumental edifice of anecdote and gossip”, suggesting that quoted officials, being a socialist and an anonymous, wanted to use the EU stage for national politics.
“There are a lot of people in Brussels who secretly admire the way Hungarians and the Hungarian government go about things. Hungarians – and the Hungarian prime minister – are known as straight-talkers. You can make enemies this way, but sooner or later you will gain admirers too – providing the talk makes sense,” Kovacs writes in his letter.
