Kovacs: Bloomberg using 'double standards'

State Secretary Zoltan Kovacs has sharply criticised Bloomberg for applying "double standards" in his reply to an editorial published on the media holding's website. Bloomberg's Andreas Kluth, in his article entitled "Coronavirus has exposed the EU's creeping irrelevance", called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban a "tin-pot dictator" who has "largely neutered Hungary’s opposition, courts and press, and last month he took the pandemic as his pretext to rule by decree". In his reply, Kovacs said that several other European countries had also introduced a state of emergency and some governments had acquired much larger powers than Orban's temporary authorisations, referring to the German, Swiss, and Spanish governments as examples. "Kluth also ignores the inconvenient fact that these extraordinary measures are popular with the Hungarian people, with nearly 60 percent saying they should be extended until the end of the pandemic."