European Commissioner for Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi said on Wednesday 15 February that he “sincerely” regretted his remarks the previous day during a debate in the European Parliament plenary session, during which he wondered how many “idiots” still had to speak.
Mr Várhelyi said there had been a “misunderstanding” over what he said was a “private conversation” in Hungarian with his chief of staff on “a completely different subject” from those discussed in the...