Budapest opposes the US tariffs announced by the EU. The head of Hungarian diplomacy: “Brussels is unable to cope with difficult situations”

The Budapest government does not support the option for the European Union (EU) to respond to taxes announced by US President Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Luxembourg, reports EFE Spanish.

“Hungary does not want and does not claim that the EU will respond to the US with tariffs,” said the Minister for the Hungarian press, in the margin of the Informal Council for the EU, according to AGERPRES.

Szijjarto reiterated his accusations against the European Commission (EC) who, in his opinion, “committed a serious mistake by not proposing (Trump administration) negotiations on this topic before.”

“The behavior of Brussels shows that it is unable to cope with difficult situations such as the current ones,” stressed the head of Hungarian diplomacy.

Szijjarto added that “a strategic peace” is needed, and not “revenge proposals”.

The Hungarian government of the ultra -nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban is a close ally of President Trump, which he supports before his first term, which started in 2017.

According to Szijjarto, the tariff war with the US would only generate price increases in Europe, so it stressed that this situation should be avoided in order not to “cause damage”.

The US president intensified the US trade war with the rest of the world last week, imposing a minimum rate of 10% for all imports, and in the EU, 20%.

The EC president, Ursula von der Leyen, announced on Monday that the EU has offered the US “zero to zero” for industrial goods, although it is ready to respond with countermeasures to President Trump.

Von Der Leyen has reiterated that the EU is “ready to negotiate with the US” to reach an agreement on tariffs, but at the same time prepares measures to defend its interests, including those against diverting trade flows.