The European Commission on Tuesday declined to wade into the controversy brewing over Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s controversial remarks denouncing “mixed race” nations.
- Camille Gijs
- Politico
Citing a policy that the Commission never comments on such political speeches, spokesman Eric Mamer sidestepped any direct response to a speech Orbán made on Saturday in Romania, where the far-right prime minister argued that countries where European and non-European people mingle “are no longer nations” and boasted that Hungary is “not mixed race.”
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