The European Parliament wants an internal investigation into EU enlargement commissioner Varhelyi’s questionable supporter with Bosnian Serb leader Dodik.
Is the Hungarian EU Commissioner thwarting the Union’s enlargement policy? The European Parliament raises this accusation in its new annual report on the implementation of the EU’s common foreign and security policy, which was approved on Wednesday. On the initiative of the Socialist Group, Parliament added to this report an appeal to the European Commission to launch an “independent and impartial investigation into whether the behavior and policies pursued by the Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement constitute a breach of the Code of Conduct for the members of the Commission and the Commission’s obligations under the Treaties.”
The suspicion here is that Olivér Várheyli, the former Hungarian ambassador to the EU and confidant of Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, at least tacitly approves of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik’s separatist plans. Dodik is a close ally of Orbán. In 2021, Hungary gave the Republic of Srpska a cheap €100 million loan – just in time for the elections.