Hungarian FM: EU withholding funds to Hungary ‘for political reasons’
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The European Union “is withholding Hungary’s funds owing to political reasons, unfairly, and without any legal basis,” Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Brussels on Thursday, adding that the European Commission’s conditions were piling up and were “becoming unfair”.
Answering a question at a press conference in the break of a European Foreign Affairs Council meeting, Szijjártó said the commission’s preconditions for Hungary linked to the rule of law were “like an unending GPS”. “You indicate the destination, and you see that originally it was five kilometres away, but you have been driving for three days and the GPS still gives you instructions to turn right, turn left, turn around,” he said.
He said it was unfair that “Hungary has already met the requirements but there is always a new one.”
Szijjártó said the funds Hungary was entitled to “isn’t Brussels’s own money … it is made up of the work of Europeans including Hungarian people,” he said. “A large part of those resources are owed to Hungary so that, for example, we could give teachers a significant pay rise,” he said.
We all know that. The E.U. is a giant bully. It’s punishing Hungary for wanting to protect its borders and its family values. Despicable. Like so many initially good ideas, the European Union has lost its way and will, sooner or later, go the way of Yugoslavia or, hopefully, Czechoslovakia.
Wait. Raising teacher’s pay is contingent on EU funding? Sort of demonstrates who has been financing our growth, all of these years (spoiler – our Politicians had a lot of help!).
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/long-term-eu-budget/2014-2020/spending-and-revenue_en
I encourage you to play around with the Hungary statistics. Fascinating stuff.
Challenge for those who have the time – align the annual numbers with our economic growth for the applicable year?
Every club has rules and if you don’t abide by the rules you face the consequences. If Hungary does not like the club it joined it can always leave. The same goes with NATO. Reading Szijjarto I would like to see his reaction when Hungary is under attack and neighbouring countries refuse to assist with ammunition by saying that it only escalates the war and prolongs it. Russia would like nothing better than to freeze the conflict thus consolidating the territorial gains it has made in Ukraine and then build up its’ army once again and launch another campaign against Ukraine years later to push for more territory. That is exactly what it has done so far after its’ 2012 invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine waiting 10 more years for round two. Orban and Szijjarto are trying to assist Russia. Ukraine’s future will be as a NATO member because that is the only way to deter future Russian aggression. Putin’s dream will be cutoff at the knees. Of course Orban will do everything he can to prevent Ukrainian NATO membership because he is a Putin puppet.