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In the response entitled “Samizdat No.5”, the prime minister wrote: “To the German public, Manfred Weber has labeled Hungary’s policies as being on the wrong track. These are the policies that have been governing Hungary for the last ten years. Before the COVID crisis hit, these policies have succeeded in cutting unemployment from 12 percent to below 4 percent and decreasing state debt from 84 percent to less than 66 percent. Meanwhile, we have more than doubled the minimum wage and nearly doubled the average wage. At the same time, the financial assets of households have grown threefold. Since 2014, Hungary’s GDP has grown 2-3 percent above the EU average. Hungary has spent the most in relative terms on family support, culture and sport. We guarantee places in creche and nursery schools and provide free, school meals and textbooks for Hungarian children. ....
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Manfred Weber, the head of the European People’s Party (EPP), “insulted the Hungarian people” in an interview published in the conservative German newspaper Welt am Sonntag on Sunday. Orbán noted that he had agreed to back Weber’s bid to become president of the European Commission at a meeting in Budapest two years earlier, but two days later the German politician had publicly declared that he did not want to win the office with Hungarian votes. (In the 2019 EP campaign, when asked what he would do if he could only assume the presidency using “populist Fidesz’s” votes, Weber declared he would reject the position: “When it comes to Europe’s future, I want to make it clear that the middle is dominant. Not the left-wing extremists, the communists, and not the right-wing extremists, the nationalists.”) ....