Former Hungarian PM: Hungary will leave the EU, catastrophe to follow Huxit
Gordon Bajnai, the former Prime Minister of Hungary between 2009 and 2010, talked about Hungary’s EU membership and a possible Huxit at a global security forum in Prague.
A new party-state is being born, says Bajnai
Bajnai took power after Former PM Gyurcsány resigned as prime minister following the 2008 global financial crisis, which knocked the Hungarian economy down. Gyurcsány is still a leading Hungarian politician heading the Democratic Coalition. Between 2019 and February 2024, DK seemed to become the greatest challenger of PM Orbán’s regime in the 2026 general elections. However, Gyurcsány’s rejection rate is so high in Hungary that experts claimed he would never gain power again.
Following the presidential clemency scandal, a new power arose in Hungary led by a previous Fidesz member and the ex-husband of Former Justice Minister Judit Varga, Péter Magyar‘s Tisza Party. Even though Gyurcsány is still a defining power in the opposition, his support is weakening by the day, and Péter Magyar’s star is rising following their almost 30% in the 2024 European parliamentary elections.
Mr Bajnai tried to return as the opposition’s leader in 2012 as the head of a coalition of leftist parties, organisations and background policymakers. However, he suffered a defeat in the 2014 general elections, following which he resigned from politics.
This is the reason why Bajnai kept repeating he was no longer a player in Hungarian politics at the Globsec global security forum in Prague. He participated in a talk of former state leaders, including Slovakia’s Mikulaš Dzurinda, Czechia’s Mirek Topolánek, and Austria’s Sebastian Kurz. They discussed the changing politics in Central Europe, 444.hu wrote.
Former PM Bajnai: Huxit possible, the Orbán government is working on it
Bajnai said there were structural changes in the Hungarian economy and the society’s mentality. He added PM Orbán aimed to create a society dependent on the Hungarian state because that transfers all the more power to politicians. The Orbán cabinet is building a new party state where the sole success criteria would be loyalty to the regime.
He said “cohabitation” with the EU would not last long. Now, the population is pro-EU, but many are working hard to change that.
However, following a possible Huxit, the Hungarian economy would collapse because German and Chinese carmakers would leave the country. Bajnai said there was no timed plan concerning a Huxit, but there was a strategy because the Orbán regime does not comply with the rules of the European Union.
The only other politician taking part in the forum was Balázs Orbán, the prime minister’s political director.
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Huxit would not be in Russia’s interests because they would no longer have Hungary to act on its’ behalf within the EU. Orban himself has said he has no intention of leaving the EU. Hungary would have zero influence after that as its’ veto days would be over. I don’t fully believe Bajnai’s story. There is nothing for Hungary to gain by leaving no matter how bad Hungary’s status is within the EU.
There are 195 countries in the world. Hungary does have a choice of allies and trading partners, starting with China and Russia.
Neutrality is Hungary’s best chance for survival and maintaining its sovereignty. Once out of the EU, the EU dictators will have to find countries that will accept their interference in the country’s internal affairs. It is time for a referendum, the question should be Does the EU have the right to institute a dictatorship of Hungary or should Hungary maintain its sovereignty that it had for over 1,000 years.
Maria, if you are asking for neutrality, why did Hungary join go the EU?
@mariavontheresa … We are not Switzerland … And even Switzerland is highly dependent on the EU. But don´t take my word for it!
EU point of view: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/switzerland/european-union-and-switzerland_en?s=180
And CH: https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/swisseurelations.html
You bring up “Sovereignty!” time and again. However, sovereignty needs to be considered in context. For the TLDR version I list below the encyclopedia entry:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/sovereignty/Sovereignty-and-international-law
For a more in-depth read, I recommend the following:
https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e1472?prd=MPIL
Feedback appreciated!
Let’s hope so, certainly before the E.U.trash gets its hands on tanks and it’s 1956 all over again, but there will be no “disaster.” Being unshackled to make free relations with 200 countries is better than losing your sovereignty, identity, values, and so much more in order to have the “freedom” to travel to and trade with 26 of them.
For the sake of the EU and NATO it would be great for Hungary to leave both organizations. Hungary can then fulfil its’ destiny to become the same as other central Asian republics which are tied into subservience to Russia. To repeat, Hungary’s role for Russia is to disrupt, weaken and ultimately destroy the EU which it carries out faithfully.
The obsession with Russia by some is laughable. Russia is a shadow of its former self. But the socialists need a boogeyman to continue their endless war that enriches EU politicians via arms sales, loans and the future reconstruction projects that will waste taxpayer money by the billions.
The EU is a failure and is becoming more fascist each day. It has abandoned its economic purpose and is now dedicated to central control over members.
How is that different than submitting to Russia? Russian government is horrible, but at least they protect their culture. The EU cannot claim that.
@eric What culture are you Talkin’ about? The pedofidesz, the corruption and the lier culture? Sorry for my french but your culture is pure BS!
Just ask the UK how detaching from the EU has gone. I’ll give you the answer: not well. If a country the size and standing of the UK is struggling to forge new, independent relations with the rest of the world, imagine how Hungary would fare without the negotiating clout of the EU it presently benefits from when it comes to bilateral deals with the rest of the world. That’s before one mentions the fact that Hungary’s economy is nearly 100% dependent on being a member of the European free trade area and without it, its appeal as a destination for investment and jobs largely evaporates. It’s not an ultra low cost country that would enable it to attract investment even with the presence of a hard border, realistically all investment and at least 50% of existing operations would redirect to regional countries that retain their EU status. Even China would very quickly lose interest in Hungary which functions as a entry door to the EU market.
The big mistake of joining the EU was done under a socialist administration. Socialists are never pro-national.
May I suggest that rather than seeking to destroy the EU, or entirely withdrawing Hungary from it, it would be far more productive for the population of Hungary, its businesses and foreign investors if efforts were instead directed to constructively reforming those aspects of the EU that Hungary finds egregious. I can only emphasise the largely horrific consequences for the UK arising from its departure from the EU. There are too many valuable benefits to membership that counterbalance the present negatives, although I’d argue that beyond political rhetoric and sabrerattling, Hungary enjoys only upsides from its membership and has little to complain about. I see it as an abject failure of Hungarian diplomacy that it has failed to achieve compromise on the issue of frozen funds, the magnitude of which are so essential for not just development but also the day-to-day functioning of the country it’s difficult to put into words. It’s one thing that the government has built a budget that depends on these funds arriving, it’s another that since they’ve boxed themselves into this position it becomes imperative that the temperature of the debate is lowered and a more conciliatory tone is struck so that there is a realistic possibility of these umpteen billions arriving on the national bank account.
Joining the world’s largest trading bloc cannot by definition be a mistake, the mistake would have been to not join it and handicap your country for at least a generation when all your regional competitors were joining and would gain an enormous advantage by doing so. Hungary should recognise and say thanks to taxpayers in countries further west transferring some of the benefits of their labour to the east so that they can be used to level-up the infrastructure and civic environment, all with the ultimate goal (even if it might never be accomplished in that form) that Europe’s poorer half can ultimately become as productive, innovative and prosperous as western Europe has become. I believe that even on current trends this goal is achievable within a generation but only if progress continues unabated. Free money is just that and should be grabbed with both hands while it’s available.
Even if you cannot abide by the EU and that’s your prerogative, it’s not vanishing any time soon, it’s widely supported across Europe and none of the main players (other than the UK) are remotely looking like leaving. Geography dictates that they’ll stay Hungary’s neighbour and the country would remain almost entirely ringed with EU members, therefore even after Huxit the country would need to still need to cooperate and trade with them which is frictionless at present. May I go back to the UK’s situation and highlight that even though its closest ally is the US with whom it shares a language and much culture, a bilateral deal is not in the interests of either party due to their distance and considerable difference in size and is therefore unlikely to ever happen, whereas European states are largely partnerships of equals.
Hungary is free to leave the EU but chooses to remain so mariavontheresa’s comment about “socialists” is ridiculous. Fidesz chooses to remain in the EU so complain about Fidesz and not “socialists.” Londonsteve of course is completely correct. Everyone knows that economically there is no better alternative than to be in the EU. I do like the comment of the Polish deputy foreign minister who said: “Why doesn’t Orban form a union with Putin and some other authoritarian states of that sort? It’s like if you don’t want to be a member of a club, you can always leave. It is certainly [Orban’s] anti-EU, anti-Ukrainian, and anti-Polish policy at the moment,” (Bartoszewski)
Everyone is entitled to one bad decision. Hungarians did not realize that Brussels would deprive them of self-government and sovereignty.
I’m slowly coming to the conclusion, Maria, that you’re a troll, and if you’re not, then I’m positively alarmed. For me it’s already an hour past midnight metaphorically speaking and I’m taking active steps to leave this country, a vessel that absolutely insists it wants a battle with an iceberg and is convinced it’ll come away unblemished. It’s not that Hungary is without any positive attibutes viewed in isolation but I’m struggling to come up with a single reason to remain here compared to a wide array of alternatives in Europe. I mistakenly thought that I’m moving to a prospering country but I now regret my decision, in reality it’s heading directly for the iceberg and people like you are encouraging the collision.
Might I also suggest, Maria, that when Hungary leaves it hands back every penny the EU has invested in the country since 2004, allowing the UK taxpayer to gain a significant refund on its contributions while it remained an EU member. These sums have been effectively stolen from European taxpayers and Hungary will now need to settle its considerable debts. This hostile country deserves not one Pfenning of further funding in the meantime and the taps should remain firmly off.
London Steve, I am not a troll. I am a fan of Hungary, FIDESZ Christian Conservative government.
I am amazed at your comments when today an article stated that Blair, previous P.M., want to put a limit on free speech in the UK. Only socialists, dictatorships and communists want to control individual freedoms and freedoms of speech. This will never happen in the US, the 2nd Amendment, the right to bear arms protect the American People from EU and UK type of dictatorships.
If you think the UK is a dictatorship might I politely suggest you include Hungary in your roll-call of global dictatorships. There is far more evidence for Hungary fulfilling this definition than the UK.