‘Why on earth are tariffs necessary?’ Hungary’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has criticized the European Commission for its attitude to competition from the Chinese automotive industry.
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00:00When it comes to the tax or tariffs being imposed on the Chinese electromobility industry,
00:08we have raised the question to the Commission why on earth this measure is necessary.
00:13They have referred to their willingness to protect the representatives of the European
00:18automotive industry. Then we talked to the biggest representatives and the strongest
00:22representatives of the European industry, which said, please don't do that. It's against our
00:28interest. Don't do that, you know. So then what's the reason? There's no rational reason,
00:32only ideological, only political, why the European Commission has made this measure.
00:36And that can be, you know, killing to the competitiveness of the European economy again.