“We invited all the diplomatic corps, however after the location with Mr. Romanowski, [Foreign] Minister Sikorski despatched a word to the Hungarian ambassador that he used to be now not a welcome visitor on the theater,” mentioned Polish Deputy Eu Affairs Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka.
She added that Hungarian High Minister Viktor Orbán used to be now not invited both. “We’re ready to peer if a lower-ranking consultant will seem,” she mentioned.
Romanowski, an MP with the nationalist opposition Regulation and Justice (PiS) birthday celebration, faces 11 fees in Poland for misuse of public finances when he used to be deputy justice minister from 2019 to 2023. A Warsaw court docket issued a Eu arrest warrant for him in a while sooner than Hungary granted his asylum.
Family members between the 2 international locations have turn out to be an increasing number of adverse for the reason that present Polish High Minister Donald Tusk and his centrist coalition defeated PiS in past due 2023 — with the 2 governments taking other aspects (Poland, professional Kyiv; Hungary, sympathetic to Moscow) over the Eu reaction to Russia’s full-scale struggle in Ukraine.
In keeping with Polish information outlet Onet, the Hungarian ambassador used to be invited to the gala or even showed his presence few weeks in the past.
In accordance with the Polish determination, the Hungarian International Affairs Ministry wrote in an e-mail to POLITICO: “In keeping with International Minister Péter Szijjártó, two phrases are aggressive in reference to the verdict of the Polish International Minister’s colleague: pathetic and infantile.”
Csongor Körömi contributed to this document.
