Orban comments on his scarf showing part of Ukraine as Hungarian
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán commented on the scandalous scarf with "Greater Hungary" and said that "football is not politics"
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He wrote about it on Facebook.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that football is no place for politics and advised "not to see what is not there."
"Football is not politics. Let's not see what is not there. The Hungarian national team is the team of all Hungarians, no matter where they live!" Orbán wrote.
- On Sunday Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán appeared at a soccer match in Budapest wearing a scarf with a map of so-called “Greater Hungary”, including territory that is now part of the neighbouring states of Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Serbia and Ukraine.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine summoned the ambassador of Hungary to protest the move.
- Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko wrote on Facebook that "the promotion of revisionist ideas in Hungary does not contribute to the development of Ukrainian-Hungarian relations and does not comply with the principles of European policy."
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