Péter Szijjártó reacted to an interview published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in which Schulz said: “As for rightwing populists, in Europe the [Heinz- Christian] Straches and Orbáns are in the same political family with Merkel; they are all members of the European People’s Party group”.

“Everything always reminds Schulz of the Hungarian prime minister, but he had better get to work on his own party after its three ignominious election defeats over the past few months,” Szijjártó said.

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