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Hungary “certainly cannot support” Dutch premier Mark Rutte’s bid to become secretary general of NATO, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. “We certainly cannot support the election of a person as NATO secretary general who previously wanted to bring Hungary to its knees,” Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest. “It would be very strange if the candidacy of such a person was supported by the Hungarian government.” Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, was a strong advocate for rules making access to the European Union’s budget conditional on meeting the bloc’…

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