PM: Weber cannot threaten the national government of Hungary
The prime minister said in a post on social media that he was hardly surprised by Weber's declaration that he was 'fed up with' unanimous decision-making in the EU.
PM Orbán said the EPP head was used to ordering about and blackmailing 'his puppet', the Tisza Party leader, who relied on Weber not to lift his immunity as an MEP and face prosecution in Hungary for 'common-law crimes', but the 'Hungarophobe' could not go over the heads of more than two million Hungarians on the issue of Ukraine, PM Orbán added.
In a recent interview with a German website, Weber called for the creation of a 'coalition of the willing', saying he was 'fed up with Viktor Orbán', adding, 'Europe's ability to act depends on whether or not the principle of unanimity can be abolished.'
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