"Brussels is a city teeming with spies. Russians, Iranians, Israelis, Chinese They all move about, seeking information within European institutions and NATO, or to obtain intelligence from the hundreds of organizations headquartered in the Belgian capital. Now, a European espionage scandal has rocked the EU and diplomatic circles in Brussels. The European Commission is investigating whether the Hungarian intelligence services worked to recruit a network of spies among European officials. And, above all, whether its current Commissioner for Health and Consumer"
"Investigators will have to determine whether this network used intelligence agents under diplomatic cover as employees of the Hungarian Permanent Representation to the EU when Varhelyi was its ambassador. The objective would have been to obtain classified documents and sensitive information of interest to the government of nationalist-populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is embroiled in a long-standing dispute with the EU. The accusations, uncovered by the Hungarian investigative media outlet Direkt36 in collaboration with Belgian and German media, span from 2012"
An espionage scandal alleges Hungarian intelligence recruited a network of spies among European officials in Brussels to obtain classified EU and NATO documents. The suspected network reportedly used intelligence agents under diplomatic cover as employees of the Hungarian Permanent Representation to the EU while Oliver Varhelyi served as ambassador. The campaign allegedly targeted sensitive information for Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government and spans from 2012 to at least 2018. The European Commission has opened an internal security investigation and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has summoned Commissioner Varhelyi. The Hungarian government denies the accusations and calls them a smear campaign.
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