Szijjarto criticized colleagues for phones at meetings of EU foreign ministers

Most of the foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) countries are on their phones during joint meetings instead of listening to the speaker. This was stated on March 26 by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto in an interview on the Ultrahang Youtube channel.

"I never bring my phone to meetings of foreign ministers. <...> I don't bring my phone, not for reasons of secrecy, but simply because I want to listen carefully to what's going on. If a person has a phone, sooner or later he will start poking at it, as everyone does. So it looks like this: 27 people are sitting at a table, 25 of them are sitting like this (leaning towards the phone. — Ed.), and only I and the one who speaks keep our heads up," Szijjarto said.

According to the Hungarian Foreign Minister, the content and results of such meetings almost always become public knowledge.

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