Kovacs: Left-wing, liberal pro-migration forces have hijacked European institutions

A top Hungarian government official said on Monday that "left-wing and liberal migration policy advocates" had "hijacked" European institutions and were using them to promote their own agenda. This was happening "not only during the campaign period but also before it", Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary for international communications and relations, told Hungarian journalists in Brussels. The Hungarian government does not expect anything good to come out of Wednesday's European parliamentary debate, "obviously a political campaign, part of a witch hunt against Hungary", he said. "There's nothing, no new event, that justifies putting Hungary back on the agenda by the European Parliament," he said, adding that Hungary's government would not be represented in Brussels at the debate accordingly.