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PM Orbán: Brussels is marching towards a new kind of bureaucratic dictatorship
“Despite many topics on the agenda, this weekend will be dominated by the subject of war and peace,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on his flight to Brussels late on Tuesday.
Ukraine support
Speaking ahead of a European Union summit, Orbán said that while the community’s next seven-year budget, migration, and the Middle East situation were high on the agenda, “all those, otherwise crucial topics will be overshadowed by the issue of war or peace.”
Participants in the summit will need to discuss “whether to grant support to Ukraine, and if so, how much and in what way, whether it is military of financial aid, considering all possible options,” the prime minister said.
The “pro-war camp” seeks to support Ukraine, while “those that are against providing such support will say that no decision whatever should be passed right now, but wait for the outcome of US-Russia talks,” he said.
“We in the peace-camp should only declare that we support the US peace endeavours and will not make any decisions right now because that would only diminish chances for the success of the US talks,” Orbán said, adding that he expected a “clash” between the two camps in the next few days.
Frozen assets
“Whether to support Ukraine, what should happen to the frozen Russian assets, and if that does not work what kind of financial support we could provide and what ramifications all that would have on the next generation … what position we should take concerning the US peace plans, more or less these are the flowers in the bouquet for everyone to pick one,” the prime minister said.
Concerning the Russian assets, Orbán said the EU had unlawfully changed the previous regime in which “the European Council passed a unanimous decision semi-annually”, extending the freeze for an unlimited term and facilitating a decision without full consensus.
“So far Hungary has had a veto, but we have now been stripped of that right,” Orbán said, adding that “this is an open violation … we will take legal steps.” He added, however, that “concerning the Russian assets a unanimous decision is still required, unless they commit another open violation and declare that this decision also needs a two-thirds majority under the same clause.”
Orbán: Brussels is marching towards a new kind of bureaucratic dictatorship
Orbán insisted that “Brussels is marching towards a new kind of bureaucratic dictatorship” in which nation states’ rights were “simply removed by some agency of the European Commission or the European Council”.
I will cite Mr. Ésik of EY – formerly CEO of the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA):
“ … Germany is the backbone of the European economy, and Hungary is the backyard of the German industry. There’s a tight correlation visible in the numbers: Germany is the largest trading partner and represents around 25 percent of total (Hungarian) exports.”
“Spending on defense in the EU grew by roughly 20 percent in 2024 … We have prime examples in Hungary of that. We have FDI investors like Rheinmetall … One opportunity for Hungary here is to attract new FDI in this domain, but a second opportunity is to get a deeper integration into the European defense supply chain by helping Hungarian companies to become tier two or three suppliers initially.”
https://bbj.hu/business/people/interview/hungary-still-has-much-to-offer-germany/
Fun fact – https://dailynewshungary.com/hungarian-defence-industry-privatisation/
4iG went from small IT firm to conglomerate after Mr. Jászai became the owner – and guess who is mightily close with our Politicians? Ahhh … The power! The money!
Dude, if Germany is “the backbone of the European economy,” then Europe is fu…d, and not in a good way if you catch my drift.
The German economy has tanked like nothing seen since the Second World War’s aftermath. It’s G.D.P. is at between 0% and 0.1%. Look up the latest comments made by the usually bullish Peter Leibinger and everything will be clear.
You, just like your Europhallic–I mean, Europhilic–fellow travelers, are dinosaurs, completely detached from the reality.
Oh yeah, that is JUST what the EUrotrash needs more of: bureaucracy. Coz that’s the one thing there’s not enough of in that despicable monstrosity called the E.U.!
S.M.D.H.
Tbh, the dictator might be right, as he knows about dictatorships
Nowadays, Dear Jose, it is not ‘the dictators’ who are the problem, but, ‘the so-called Democrats’…