The Washington Post: the European Union helped Orbán build his autocracy
According to The Washington Post, the European Union is assisting the autocracy of Viktor Orbán, who could not have created the current system in Hungary on his own.
Support from the EU
As mandiner.hu writes, according to the US paper, the Hungarian prime minister could never have built his autocracy without “generous support from the E.U.”. US and European leaders alike are concerned that we are in the midst of a global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. Yet, the EU is giving way to two of the world’s most rapidly autocratising countries, Hungary and Poland, The Washington Post wrote in its opinion piece.
“The E.U. won a Nobel Prize in 2012 in part for promoting ‘democracy and human rights in Europe’. So why is it that the E.U. is home to the two most rapidly autocratizing countries in the world, Poland and Hungary? And why is the E.U. funding this democratic backsliding?”
the paper poses this very important question.
“Hybrid regime”
According to the news site, both governments continue to receive billions of euros in subsidies from the EU, while expressing their contempt for the EU, and “dismantling democratic institutions”. As we can read in mandiner.hu’s article, Hungary is no longer a democracy, according to rating bodies such as the V-Dem Institute and Freedom House.
These organisations say that
Viktor Orbán has turned the country into an “electoral autocracy” or “hybrid regime”.
That is a country that maintains formal elements of democracy but tilts the playing field in favour of the ruling party. This was evident in the recent elections, so the regime does not meet the traditional minimum standards of democracy.
The paper writes that Viktor Orbán could never have built his autocracy without the generous support of the EU, which funds Fidesz’s support through a complex system of rural voters who profit from contracts with the government, exchanging public works, cash, and food for votes.
The Washington Post article also subtly compared Viktor Orbán to Vladimir Putin:
“[…] a New York Times investigation found that Orban’s government had distributed land to “his family members and close associates,” allowing them to benefit from E.U. farming subsidies. While Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oligarchs are enriched by oil and gas revenue, Orban’s oligarchs feed on E.U. funds.”
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Source: mandiner.hu, Washington Post
4 Comments
You have to love this- Amazon Bezos owns the WaPo. Him along with Facebook Mark Zuckerbucks bought the election for Biden. This while Biden and his son were racking in millions from UKraine- Russia and China just to mention a few. This was all known before the election and the FBI had been given the hard drive of hunters laptop that documents everything in great detail in thousands email and video over many years. The only media that reported it was the NY post and their entire web site was removed from Facebook and Twitter and anyone dare mention it they were shutdown. For almost 2 years the NYT and WAPo did not cover it along with 90% of the US media. Biden’s daughter is rarely mentioned unlike trumps 5 children that have been investigated for anything and everything. The FBI recently raided 3 journalist homes in early morning raids and all had all the computer equipment taken even though the had had gone to google – Apple and Microsoft and forced them to hand over cloud info the year before – seems his daughters diary is even more disgusting than his son Hunter. Little has been reported. NYC Mayor during 9/11 and has been called Americas mayor also had his home raided by a FBI early morning swat team. He was investigating the Hunter Hardrive and the Biden crime family even though the FBI had all the info a year before- he was also investigating Ukraine corruption and the phony impeachment of Trump over a phone call.
THE UKRAINE WAR WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IF TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT. The EU is just as much responsible as now corrupt US goverment – the Obama clan have corrupted the very highest levels of the US goverment and very much in control- that includes the CIA and the DOJ and the WaPo thinks Orban- they can’t stand anyone with a brain
The Washington Post and NY Times have zero credibility. They pushed the Russian Collusion story without any evidence or facts because they are the Democratic Party’s Pravda. They sold their soul and anything they write should be read with suspicion.
I was told to zip my “lip” (by someone who knows better than me – my brother), but, in the interest of the rest of those who might read this article, in particular, these two comments above, here’s a link to an article that everyone should and read to get a clearer picture about the media sources Americans turn to for political news:
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/01/24/americans-are-divided-by-party-in-the-sources-they-turn-to-for-political-news/ – Nothing to do with the EU funding for Hungary, and how Pm Orban used it, for that my apologies.
Addendum: If Fox News was a daily broadsheet, I’d be using it to wipe my behind with, ouch! 😀 – Some of us know how Rupert Murdoch “works”.
NIN- I can imagine you have big behind—
The latest is the German goverment worked with Washington Post to expose a conservative blogger and Dox her and to visit members of her family to shut her down – all this from WaPo owned by the second richest man in the world. The media org that lied Russia Russia on a daily basis for 4 years – 2 years after the Biden laptop was exposed they finally admitted it was all true- that is true for all the major media in the world along with big tech – let’s see if you can guess witch one????