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Viktor Orban, PM Hungary
Hungary’s foreign ministry summoned the US envoy on Wednesday after the US senator John McCain called Prime Minister Viktor Orban a “neo-fascist dictator”.
The United States has become increasingly critical of Orban’s government, accusing him of getting too close to Russia since east-west tensions rose over Ukraine.
Hungary’s foreign minister called in the US chargé d’affaires, Andrea Goodfriend, over McCain’s comments, made in the US Senate during a political spat over the appointment of Hollywood producer Colleen Bell as US ambassador in Budapest. MOREHERE