EU begins new procedures against Hungary: will we lose even more money?
Yesterday marked the black day of PM Viktor Orbán since the European Union launched two separate procedures against his government. Brussels is to attack the release of human smugglers from Hungarian prisons at court, and they disagree with the fixed pricing of the building materials.
According to mfor.hu, the European Commission launched two separate infringement procedures against the Hungarian government yesterday. And the Hungarian news outlet believes it will be difficult to evade a fine. In the case of releasing human smugglers from Hungarian prisons, the European Commission already sent its relevant notice to the Orbán cabinet.
The Commission believes that the government broke several EU directives because it did not consider the circumstances. Furthermore, Brussels believes that such short sanctions are not effective. The Hungarian foreign minister reacted harshly to the accusations.
According to telex.hu, Hungary cannot receive money from three separate EU funds due to the infringement and rule-of-law procedures. The first one is the biggest, EUR 22 billion of development funds. The second one is smaller but still remarkably high considering the worrisome state of Hungary’s state budget, the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility) funds, almost EUR 5.8 billion in non-refundable allocations and EUR 9.7 billion in discounted loans. Furthermore, 21 Hungarian universities will not be able to take part in the Erasmus and Horizon programs from September. We wrote about that issue HERE.
Minister outraged because of the new procedures
Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, said at a press conference that the EU is the “largest supporter of migration.” The European Union‘s migration policy is the hotbed of people smugglers’ success, which makes the infringement procedure launched against Hungary for expelling foreign people smugglers especially hypocritical, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday.
Szijjártó told a press conference held jointly with his Bosnian counterpart Elmedin Konakovic, that “the business model of people smugglers works precisely because of Brussels’ pro-migration policy”, MTI wrote. Rather than stating that legal entry is the only way to come to Europe, “Brussels forces [resettlement] quotas, practically sending an invitation letter to every migrant to come here,” he said.
Because of all that, the EU’s infringement procedure against Hungarian legislation on expelling people smugglers to serve their detentions in their former country of residence is “unacceptable, hypocritical and ludicrous,” he said. Hungary has spent some HUF 650 billion (EUR 1.7 billion) on border protection, and received a mere 1 percent of that in compensation from the EU, he noted.
Szijjártó said the Hungarian legislation, adopted in April 2023, aims to “expel people smugglers because it is better to have them outside the country. We expel them because we are not willing to spend Hungarian taxpayers’ money on them. Especially if they then turn to European courts, wanting money for not having been treated well.” “Besides committing crimes, and crimes facilitated by the European Union, we should also pay for not treating them well in Hungarian prisons,” he said.
Here are some photos of the 3-day-long government session held in Sopron:
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Oh dear. Where to start …
Older but insightful: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2019/635559/EPRS_BRI(2019)635559_EN.pdf
EU source with all the relevant links. Yes, a lot of thought goes into this, if you are going to debate the matter, it is perhaps wise to immerse yourself in the matter rather than parrot some Politician:
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asylum/legal-migration-and-integration_en
Then our border protection… I know of this guy who boasted about building a wall and have his neighbor pay for it. The crowds roared! They loved it. Their champion.
However, he never consulted with his neighbor, so guess what … He made the crowds pay, instead #promisespromises
A report by Hungarian television RTL, filmed on a hidden camera, showed the Hungarian prison administration busing convicts to a railway station in a border town while pushing them to take a ticket to leave Hungary. They were not sent to their country of origin to serve out the remainder of their sentence as Szijjarto misleads in his statement. The release of 777 human smugglers was done by the Fidesz government to create more chaos in Europe as the smugglers resume their work. Presumably Orban consulted with his Russian friends before he came up with this idea.
Hungary is following the example of many countries. South American, African countries are emptying jails and sending convicts to the US and EU. Of course, the policy for keeping illegal migrants and criminals just encourages this action. Not only do the US and EU happily keep illegal migrants and criminals, but these countries are also making people smugglers extremely rich. There is no reason for Hungary to keep smugglers in jail when the EU and US are openly encouraging illegal migration. The EU definition of a refugee “anyone who seeks asylum” regardless of reason.
In the US, the party in power appoints judges. It should not matter who appoints Supremes, as long as they follow the Constitution and rule without prejudice.
The EU wants Hungary to leave, the best way to achieve this is by forever take the country to court. Withholding is just another way to irritate the country. Once Hungary closed the borders in 2015, the EU decided since the country does not obey the globalist and socialist, the EU had no further use for the country.
It should be obvious that if all the other countries of the EU, with 600 million citizens can play by the rules then it should not be hard for a country of only 8 million to play by the rules. Further, Peter must have a very bad education in history, because it was not long ago that the world opened its arms to refugees and political exiles from Hungary. There are more of Hungarian heritage living outside Hungary than inside! What if the world decided that it did not want these Hungarian exiles any longer? They do not want to come back to a broken country ruled by lies and sensational headlines, where teachers and health care are at the bottom of the list and stadiums and military spending is at the top. Where people are convinced to have children with money from taxes while at the same time are deprived of education and healthcare options? Where does it stop when Victors friends are rapists like Trump or war criminals like Putin?
Well, Hungary has managed to piss off the EU, the US, NATO and even the V4. The final straw was the crazy Putin policy. It has already cost you and the costs will increase. Keep digging that hole.
Just cause the eu has a policy that most morons in Europe follow with migration it doesn’t mean Hungary has to too. The EU has an agenda and if you don’t follow suit they punish you. It’s called blackmail. Belgium France Germany England (not in EU anymore) Sweden etc crime rates and rape are through the roof since their migration adoption that has no border control in line or checks. Hungary is a small country they don’t need more hardships. Belgium was a dump in 2007. Can’t be bothered to go back. Why is this a good thing for the eu. Hungarians migrated after the Second World War but they didn’t rape and self detonate themselves and slash people’s throats when frustrated. Even just 4 of 400 in each boat is too much. 1 can injure and kill many. It’s a kind of perversity this migration obsession of the west either single women vote for it or homosexuals mostly. People who don’t have partners and that’s the truth.
Just cause the eu has a policy that most morons in Europe follow with migration it doesn’t mean Hungary has to too. The EU has an agenda and if you don’t follow suit they punish you. It’s called blackmail. Belgium France Germany England (not in EU anymore) Sweden etc crime rates and rape are through the roof since their migration adoption that has no border control in line or checks. Hungary is a small country they don’t need more hardships. Belgium was a dump in 2007. Can’t be bothered to go back. Why is this a good thing for the eu. Hungarians migrated after the Second World War but they didn’t rape and self detonate themselves and slash people’s throats when frustrated. Even just 4 of 400 in each boat is too much. 1 can injure and kill many. It’s a kind of perversity this migration obsession of the west either single women vote for it or homosexuals mostly. People who don’t have partners and that’s the truth.
I say we should leave the EU as soon as possible. They are giving us no money, money which is not a gift — money we deserve because the Germans invaded us in March 1944 and killed the Jews here, It’s time to make a peace treaty with Russia, and support them in the war against the Nazis in Ukraine.