{"id":40028,"date":"2025-01-04T01:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40028"},"modified":"2025-01-04T01:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:19:16","slug":"as-it-takes-over-eu-presidency-poland-snubs-hungarian-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/as-it-takes-over-eu-presidency-poland-snubs-hungarian-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"As It Takes Over EU Presidency, Poland Snubs Hungarian Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Polish authorities refused to invite Hungary&#8217;s ambassador to the official ceremonies marking Poland&#8217;s assumption of the rotating presidency of the European Union Council, following Budapest&#8217;s decision to grant asylum to a former Polish official accused of corruption.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In December, Budapest granted political asylum to Marcin Romanowski, a former deputy justice minister in Poland\u2019s previous nationalist government, citing &#8220;concrete evidence of procedural shortcomings&#8221; in Poland. Warsaw described the move as a &#8220;hostile act,&#8221; according to AFP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Polish Deputy Minister for European Affairs Magdalena Sroka told state television TVP Info that \u201cGiven the current situation with Mr. Romanowski, Minister [of Foreign Affairs] Rados\u0142aw Sikorski sent a memorandum to the Hungarian ambassador, informing him that his presence is not welcome\u201d at Friday\u2019s ceremony in the National Theatre in Warsaw.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hungarian Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 called the decision &#8220;pathetic and childish&#8221; in a statement to AFP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Polish prosecutors accuse Romanowski, who oversaw a victim aid fund under the Ministry of Justice between 2019 and 2023, of committing 11 violations, including embezzling or attempting to embezzle around \u20ac40 million.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Relations between Warsaw and Budapest have deteriorated since Poland&#8217;s nationalist Law and Justice Party\u2014aligned with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2014lost the October 2023 parliamentary elections to a pro-European coalition led by Donald Tusk.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Poland officially assumed the rotating presidency of the EU Council from Hungary on January 1.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish authorities refused to invite Hungary&#8217;s ambassador to the official ceremonies marking Poland&#8217;s assumption of the rotating presidency of the European Union Council, following Budapest&#8217;s decision to grant asylum to a former Polish official accused of corruption. In December, Budapest granted political asylum to Marcin Romanowski, a former deputy justice minister in Poland\u2019s previous nationalist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40029,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40028\/revisions\/40029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}