Overview

• Commission spokesperson Balázs Ujvári said a special internal group will examine the information and prioritize safeguarding staff and IT systems, declining further detail during the review.
• European outlets including Belgium’s De Tijd reported that Hungarian intelligence built a network in Brussels using diplomatic cover to approach personnel inside EU bodies.
• The media accounts allege efforts to recruit EU officials and claim at least one operative was embedded in European Commission security.
• The Commission emphasized that the assertions are unverified in public and characterized its response as an internal fact-finding exercise.
• Hungary rejected the allegations, with government spokesman Zoltán Kovács calling them a smear orchestrated by foreign intelligence following a report by the Hungarian outlet Direkt36.