This Hungarian party is the German AfD’s biggest ally
Mi Hazánk on Wednesday asked its leader, Laszlo Toroczkai, to lead the radical opposition party’s European parliamentary election list, with deputy party leader Dóra Dúró placed number two, but both have pledged to make way for other party members to represent the party in the EP, while they themselves would keep their seats in the national assembly.
Toroczkai said Mi Hazánk took “all Hungarians” into consideration while fighting against “anti-nationalist ideological networks” that had an outsized influence in the world.
Germany’s Alternative fur Deutschland, he said, was one of the party’s most important allies.
In the event new party alliances are established in EP after the elections, Mi Hazánk would be ready to join an “anti-globalist party family working to achieve a Europe of nations”, he said.
Dúró said the party was working to build a “Hungarian future rather than a globalist dictatorship”.
Toroczkai and Dúró are followed on the list by historian Zsuzsanna Borvendég, Vojvodina engineer Szilveszter Kispalkó and János Árgyelán, the party’s foreign affairs spokesman.
Dúró and Borvendég: one goes, one stays
Fidesz MEP: Hungary has a need for peace in Ukraine
Hungary has a need for peace to emerge in Ukraine, and its interests lie in preserving stability and prosperity in Europe, Kinga Gál, the leader of the Fidesz European Parliament (EP) group, said in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
After the EP plenary debate on strengthening European security and defence, Gál told Hungarian journalists that Hungary condemned Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and stood by Ukraine in upholding its territorial integrity, while providing humanitarian support “beyond its means”.
She said, however, it was “unacceptable” that Hungary had been attacked because it stood for peace.
Meanwhile, Hungary a supports common defence policy and strengthening Europe’s defence industry, something that Hungary’s EU presidency will prioritise, she said.
But Hungary rejects “ideological statements” contained in the reports discussed in the EP today, she added. Europe’s “real interests”, such as stopping its slide in competitiveness, should be the real focus of debates, Gál said.
The MEP decried “repeated attacks” in EP reports against Olivér Várhelyi, the commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, adding that he deserved credit for getting enlargement policy moving again.
Speeding up the European integration of the Western Balkans “is a fundamental strategic interest of the EU”, Gál added.
Regarding qualified majority voting, she said related proposals were “intolerable” and ran contrary to the EU’s basic treaties. Scrapping unanimous decision-making would gravely harm the sovereignty of member states, especially smaller ones, she said.
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I do love the “Peace in Ukraine” chant. What, exactly, constitutes “Peace”, and now for the big question, will Mr. Putin see this as appeasement and be emboldened by what will be perceived in Russia as a massive win? Also, consider he has a reconstituted, potent military at his disposal AND potentially the US becoming very isolationist under another Mr. Trump presidency. Perhaps a few choice Politicians will be helicoptered out by Seal Team Six if everything does go wrong!
Everybody in the EU and NATO stands for peace. No exception. The nuance is – on which terms? We arguably had a lot of “peace” post-1956, however it did not make Hungary a very happy place.