Hungary’s nationalist leader, Viktor Orbán, will be the star speaker at an extraordinary session of America’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to be held in Hungary this week, in an effort to cement bonds between the radical right on both sides of the Atlantic under the banner of the “great replacement” ideology.
In a speech on Monday, Orbán made explicit reference to the ideology, which claims there is a liberal plot to dilute the white populations of the US and European countries through immigration. Increasingly widespread among US Republicans, the creed was cited by the killer who opened fire on Saturday in a supermarket in a predominantly black area of Buffalo, New York.
Speaking in Buffalo on Tuesday, Joe Biden called it a “perverse ideology” and “a lie”.
“I call on all Americans to reject the lie. I condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain and for profit,” Biden said. “We’ve now seen too many times the deadly and destructive violence this ideology unleashes.”
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5/18/22
4/5/22
EU: Watch: Commission triggers rule of law mechanism against Hungary
The European Commission has notified Hungary that it is triggering the conditionality mechanism over rule of law breaches, opening the door to financial sanctions.
"The Commission has today spoken to the Hungarian authorities that we will now send a formal letter to start the conditionality mechanism," Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen told MEPs on Tuesday afternoon.
Read mor at: Watch: Commission triggers rule of law mechanism against Hungary | Euronews
"The Commission has today spoken to the Hungarian authorities that we will now send a formal letter to start the conditionality mechanism," Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen told MEPs on Tuesday afternoon.
Read mor at: Watch: Commission triggers rule of law mechanism against Hungary | Euronews
2/1/22
Hungary: Viktor Orban under fire for Moscow meeting with Vladimir Putin - by Sandor Zsiros
MEPs have criticised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's meeting with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, saying it risks EU unity over the Ukraine crisis.
Orban says he is travelling to more Moscow to increase natural gas supplies amid Europe's energy price hikes.
"Viktor Orbán is undermining joint decisions in Brussels by continuing to veto them," said Hungarian MEP Márton Gyöngyösi.
Read moiat: Viktor Orban under fire for Moscow meeting with Vladimir Putin | Euronews
Orban says he is travelling to more Moscow to increase natural gas supplies amid Europe's energy price hikes.
"Viktor Orbán is undermining joint decisions in Brussels by continuing to veto them," said Hungarian MEP Márton Gyöngyösi.
Read moiat: Viktor Orban under fire for Moscow meeting with Vladimir Putin | Euronews
10/19/21
EU - Polish relations: EU lays out options to punish Poland's challenge to bloc law - by William James
The European Commission laid out its options – ranging from legal action to withholding funds – for a response to a Polish court ruling that questioned the supremacy of EU law, stressing that action must be taken to protect the bloc’s common values.
“The European Commission is, at the moment, carefully assessing this judgment,” the European Union’s executive president, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Tuesday.
“But I can already tell you: I am deeply concerned,” she told the European Parliament in Strasbourg ahead of a speech to the assembly by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Read more at: EU lays out options to punish Poland's challenge to bloc law - Metro US
“The European Commission is, at the moment, carefully assessing this judgment,” the European Union’s executive president, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Tuesday.
“But I can already tell you: I am deeply concerned,” she told the European Parliament in Strasbourg ahead of a speech to the assembly by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Read more at: EU lays out options to punish Poland's challenge to bloc law - Metro US
10/10/21
EU - rebellious behavior of member states Hungary and Poland, as Hungary: Orban signs resolution supporting Polish court ruling
Hungary backs Poland in opposing Brussels
The Hungarian resolution comes as a result of what Orban terms "bad practice by European institutions."
"Efforts are being made to deprive member states of powers they never ceded to the EU without amending the EU treaties and through creeping extensions of competences," the resolution states in part.
The Hungarian resolution accuses the EU of overextending its powers.
Note EU-Digest: Hungary and Poland have shown a lack of solidarity with the EU. They want all the benefits but not to comply with the rules and regulations of the EU. With friends like that, you don't need any enemies.The EU Commission should now provide both Poland and Hungary with an ultimatum to either comply with the rules and regulations of the EU or end the relationship they enjoyed as members of the EU.
Read more at: Hungary: Orban signs resolution supporting Polish court ruling | News | DW | 09.10.2021
The Hungarian resolution comes as a result of what Orban terms "bad practice by European institutions."
"Efforts are being made to deprive member states of powers they never ceded to the EU without amending the EU treaties and through creeping extensions of competences," the resolution states in part.
The Hungarian resolution accuses the EU of overextending its powers.
Note EU-Digest: Hungary and Poland have shown a lack of solidarity with the EU. They want all the benefits but not to comply with the rules and regulations of the EU. With friends like that, you don't need any enemies.The EU Commission should now provide both Poland and Hungary with an ultimatum to either comply with the rules and regulations of the EU or end the relationship they enjoyed as members of the EU.
Read more at: Hungary: Orban signs resolution supporting Polish court ruling | News | DW | 09.10.2021
9/20/21
Democracy:How democracy can win again – by Gergely Karácsony
My political awakening coincided with the systemic changes that unfolded following the collapse of communism in Hungary in 1989. I was both fascinated and overjoyed by my country’s rapid democratisation. As a teenager, I persuaded my family to drive me to the Austrian border to see history in the making: the dismantling of the Iron Curtain, which allowed east-German refugees to head for the west. Reading many new publications and attending rallies for newly established democratic political parties, I was swept up by the atmosphere of unbounded hope for our future.
Today, such sentiments seem like childish naivety, or at least the product of an idyllic state of mind. Both democracy and the future of human civilisation are now in grave danger, beset by multifaceted and overlapping crises.
Read more at: How democracy can win again – Gergely Karácsony
Today, such sentiments seem like childish naivety, or at least the product of an idyllic state of mind. Both democracy and the future of human civilisation are now in grave danger, beset by multifaceted and overlapping crises.
Read more at: How democracy can win again – Gergely Karácsony
6/22/21
EU-Hungarian Relations: Hungary’s classrooms have become the new battleground for the war on ‘LGBT ideology’ - by Mark Gevisser
Last week, the Hungarian parliament banned any portrayal of homosexuality or transgenderism to minors, in educational material or on television. Appending this to a law protecting children from child abuse, the country’s president, Viktor Orbán, drew an explicit connection between homosexuality and paedophilia. In so doing, he resorted to a canard that much of the world has long dispensed with, but that is enjoying a troubling new emergence in the global battles against “gender ideology”: the danger posed by homosexuals and trans people to children.
Read more at: Hungary’s classrooms have become the new battleground for the war on ‘LGBT ideology’ | Mark Gevisser | The Guardian
Read more at: Hungary’s classrooms have become the new battleground for the war on ‘LGBT ideology’ | Mark Gevisser | The Guardian
5/31/21
Coronavirus news: : Hungary to produce China′s Sinopharm jab
The Hungarian goverment on Monday announced plans to produce the Chinese-developed Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine locally.
Hungary is the only EU country to inoculate its citizens with the Chinese jab after domestic regulators approved its use.
Speaking in China, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said officials would open a planned €157 million ($193 million) vaccine plant in the eastern town of Debrecen.
Read more at Coronavirus digest: Hungary to produce China′s Sinopharm jab | News | DW | 31.05.2021
Hungary is the only EU country to inoculate its citizens with the Chinese jab after domestic regulators approved its use.
Speaking in China, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said officials would open a planned €157 million ($193 million) vaccine plant in the eastern town of Debrecen.
Read more at Coronavirus digest: Hungary to produce China′s Sinopharm jab | News | DW | 31.05.2021
5/23/21
Hungary′s Viktor Orban faces challenge from Budapest mayor
Budapest's liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony on Saturday declared his plan to contest joint opposition primaries in September and October, hoping to become top challenger to Viktor Orban in general elections due next April.
Read more at: Hungary′s Viktor Orban faces challenge from Budapest mayor | News | DW | 15.05.2021
Read more at: Hungary′s Viktor Orban faces challenge from Budapest mayor | News | DW | 15.05.2021
3/23/21
Hungary’s Covid-19 wars – by Stephen Pogány
While Europe and most of the world is locked in a desperate battle with a virus which has already claimed the lives of well over two and a half million people, Hungary has been waging a war against multiple adversaries. The coronavirus is just one of several targets.
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has insisted that ‘[h]uman lives and health stand above politics’ and that ‘[i]t’s irresponsible to turn vaccines into a political issue’. Yet it’s hard to resist the conclusion that his administration’s handling of the pandemic has been shaped by political considerations as well as informed medical opinion.
Orbán has an acrimonious relationship with the European Union, which he routinely castigates for its purportedly liberal asylum policies, support for multiculturalism, failure to uphold ‘Christian’ values and federalist tendencies. To the dismay of the Netherlands and others, Orbán, along with the government of Mateusz Morawiecki in Poland, fought efforts by the EU to introduce meaningful sanctions for member countries which violate the rule of law.
Read more at: Hungary’s Covid-19 wars – Stephen Pogány
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has insisted that ‘[h]uman lives and health stand above politics’ and that ‘[i]t’s irresponsible to turn vaccines into a political issue’. Yet it’s hard to resist the conclusion that his administration’s handling of the pandemic has been shaped by political considerations as well as informed medical opinion.
Orbán has an acrimonious relationship with the European Union, which he routinely castigates for its purportedly liberal asylum policies, support for multiculturalism, failure to uphold ‘Christian’ values and federalist tendencies. To the dismay of the Netherlands and others, Orbán, along with the government of Mateusz Morawiecki in Poland, fought efforts by the EU to introduce meaningful sanctions for member countries which violate the rule of law.
Read more at: Hungary’s Covid-19 wars – Stephen Pogány
2/28/21
Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán vaccinated against COVID with Chinese Sinopharm vaccine
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has been inoculated against COVID-19 with the vaccine from the Chinese laboratory Sinopharm after Hungary become the first EU country to approve its use.
"I am vaccinated," said a message published on Sunday on Orbán's official Facebook page, accompanied by photos and a video showing him being injected with a dose of the vaccine by a health worker holding a Sinopharm box.
Hungary began using the Sinopharm vaccine on Wednesday, after having already having given the Russian Sputnik V vaccine emergency authorisation for use without waiting for the green light from the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Read more at: Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán vaccinated against COVID with Chinese Sinopharm vaccine | Euronews
"I am vaccinated," said a message published on Sunday on Orbán's official Facebook page, accompanied by photos and a video showing him being injected with a dose of the vaccine by a health worker holding a Sinopharm box.
Hungary began using the Sinopharm vaccine on Wednesday, after having already having given the Russian Sputnik V vaccine emergency authorisation for use without waiting for the green light from the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Read more at: Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán vaccinated against COVID with Chinese Sinopharm vaccine | Euronews
2/19/21
EU legal threat to Hungary over failure to obey ECJ
The EU Commission on Thursday (18 February) launched legal action over Hungary's failure to implement a judgement from the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which ruled that legislation on restricting foreign-funding of NGOs was against EU rules.
The EU executive said that Hungary "has not taken the necessary measures to comply with the judgment, despite repeated calls from the commission to do so as a matter of urgency".
Read more at: EU legal threat to Hungary over failure to obey ECJ
The EU executive said that Hungary "has not taken the necessary measures to comply with the judgment, despite repeated calls from the commission to do so as a matter of urgency".
Read more at: EU legal threat to Hungary over failure to obey ECJ
2/9/21
Hungary: Fresh blow to press freedom in Hungary as Klubrádió forced off the airwaves - by Emma Beswick
Hungary's first independent radio station, Klubrádió, will go off the airwaves on Sunday at midnight after a court upheld a decision by media authorities not to extend its broadcasting licence.
The news marks yet another setback for the independent media in the country, which has been under pressure since Prime Minister Viktor Orban's return to power in 2010.
Read more at: Fresh blow to press freedom in Hungary as Klubrádió forced off the airwaves | Euronews
The news marks yet another setback for the independent media in the country, which has been under pressure since Prime Minister Viktor Orban's return to power in 2010.
Read more at: Fresh blow to press freedom in Hungary as Klubrádió forced off the airwaves | Euronews
1/25/21
Covid-19 Vaccine: Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia and Hungary Put Trust in Russian, Chinese Vaccines - by Hamdi Firat Buyuk, Danijel Kovacevic, and Milica Stojanovic
While the majority of countries in Central and Southeast Europe have brokered deals to obtain Western-manufactured COVID-19 vaccines, Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia are keeping their options open and also obtaining Chinese and Russian vaccines – despite concerns about their reliability.
Some health experts have warned that the effectiveness of these vaccines is still not fully researched, and note that their delivery dates are also still uncertain.
“Unfortunately, Turkey could not purchase a vaccine in which all three phases of research had been completed. Furthermore, there are no plans to bring [Western] Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines [to Turkey],” Emrah Altindis, a Turkish professor of Biology at Boston College, wrote on Twitter.
Turkey said earlier that it would purchase 50 million doses of China’s CoronaVac vaccine, which is still in third of phase of research. After various delays, only 3 million doses arrived on December 31. So far, Turkey has vaccinated 1.2 million of its more than 82 million citizens.
Note EU-Digest: At a press conference in Beijing a state taskforce announced the vaccine had exceeded World Health Organization standards and would help establish effective immunity in China.
Health officials said vulnerable groups would be prioritised ahead of the general population. Key groups have already been receiving vaccines under emergency approvals, including about a million receiving the Sinopharm vaccine.
Read more at: Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia and Hungary Put Trust in Russian, Chinese Vaccines | Balkan Insight
Some health experts have warned that the effectiveness of these vaccines is still not fully researched, and note that their delivery dates are also still uncertain.
“Unfortunately, Turkey could not purchase a vaccine in which all three phases of research had been completed. Furthermore, there are no plans to bring [Western] Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines [to Turkey],” Emrah Altindis, a Turkish professor of Biology at Boston College, wrote on Twitter.
Turkey said earlier that it would purchase 50 million doses of China’s CoronaVac vaccine, which is still in third of phase of research. After various delays, only 3 million doses arrived on December 31. So far, Turkey has vaccinated 1.2 million of its more than 82 million citizens.
Note EU-Digest: At a press conference in Beijing a state taskforce announced the vaccine had exceeded World Health Organization standards and would help establish effective immunity in China.
Health officials said vulnerable groups would be prioritised ahead of the general population. Key groups have already been receiving vaccines under emergency approvals, including about a million receiving the Sinopharm vaccine.
Read more at: Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia and Hungary Put Trust in Russian, Chinese Vaccines | Balkan Insight
1/21/21
Coronavirus: Hungary first in EU to approve Russian vaccine-by Nick Thorpe
Hungary has become the first country in the European Union to give preliminary approval to the Russian coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff confirmed both the Russian jab and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had been given the green light by the health authorities.
Read more at: Coronavirus: Hungary first in EU to approve Russian vaccine - BBC News
On Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff confirmed both the Russian jab and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had been given the green light by the health authorities.
Read more at: Coronavirus: Hungary first in EU to approve Russian vaccine - BBC News
12/13/20
EU: The Costs of Merkel’s Surrender to Hungarian and Polish Extortion - by George Soros
The European Union is facing an existential threat, and yet the EU’s leadership is responding with a compromise that appears to reflect a belief that the threat can simply be wished away. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s kleptocratic regime in Hungary and, to a lesser extent, the illiberal Law and Justice (PiS) government in Poland, are brazenly challenging the values on which the European Union has been built. Treating their challenge as a legitimate political stance deserving of recognition and a compromise solution will only add – massively – to the risks that the EU now faces.
Orbán has stolen and misappropriated vast sums during his decade in power, including EU funds that should have gone to benefit the Hungarian people. He cannot afford to have a practical limit imposed on his personal and political corruption, because these illicit proceeds are the grease that keeps the wheels of his regime turning smoothly and his cronies in line.
Threatening to torpedo the EU’s finances by vetoing its budget was a desperate gamble on Orbán’s part. But it was a bluff that should have been called. Unfortunately, Merkel has, it appears, caved in to Hungarian and Polish extortion.
Read more at: The Costs of Merkel’s Surrender to Hungarian and Polish Extortion by George Soros - Project Syndicate
Orbán has stolen and misappropriated vast sums during his decade in power, including EU funds that should have gone to benefit the Hungarian people. He cannot afford to have a practical limit imposed on his personal and political corruption, because these illicit proceeds are the grease that keeps the wheels of his regime turning smoothly and his cronies in line.
Threatening to torpedo the EU’s finances by vetoing its budget was a desperate gamble on Orbán’s part. But it was a bluff that should have been called. Unfortunately, Merkel has, it appears, caved in to Hungarian and Polish extortion.
Read more at: The Costs of Merkel’s Surrender to Hungarian and Polish Extortion by George Soros - Project Syndicate
12/10/20
EU breaks deadlock (by caving in to Hungary and Poland ?) on budget, coronavirus recovery fund
European Union leaders on Thursday reached agreement on a long-term budget and coronavirus recovery package, after weeks of resistance from Poland and Hungary, according to EU Council President Charles Michel.
"Now we can start with the implementation and build back our economies. Our landmark recovery package will drive forward our green and digital transitions,'' Michel said in a tweet.
No details of the agreement were immediately available, however ahead of the summit, EU diplomats and officials said there would likely be a declaration that the rule of law mechanism would only be used after a ruling from the European Court of Justice — a process that could take a year.
Read more at: EU breaks deadlock on budget, coronavirus recovery fund | News | DW | 10.12.2020
"Now we can start with the implementation and build back our economies. Our landmark recovery package will drive forward our green and digital transitions,'' Michel said in a tweet.
No details of the agreement were immediately available, however ahead of the summit, EU diplomats and officials said there would likely be a declaration that the rule of law mechanism would only be used after a ruling from the European Court of Justice — a process that could take a year.
Read more at: EU breaks deadlock on budget, coronavirus recovery fund | News | DW | 10.12.2020
12/8/20
EU: Poland, Hungary face growing calls to drop EU budget veto - "if they don't want to be thrown out of EU"
Poland and Hungary faced more calls on Tuesday to drop their veto of the European Union's budget, with time short before the current budget runs out at the end of the year.
Three former Polish presidents have joined the chorus of those urging the release of the funds, which include a massive stimulus package to counteract the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
In an open letter cited by the AFP news agency, Lech Walesa, Aleksander Kwasniewski and Bronislaw Komorowski said such a veto would be justified only if the budget were unfair to Poland. However, as the Polish government had itself helped negotiate it, that was not the case, they wrote.
Read more at: Poland, Hungary face growing calls to drop EU budget veto | News | DW | 08.12.2020
Three former Polish presidents have joined the chorus of those urging the release of the funds, which include a massive stimulus package to counteract the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
In an open letter cited by the AFP news agency, Lech Walesa, Aleksander Kwasniewski and Bronislaw Komorowski said such a veto would be justified only if the budget were unfair to Poland. However, as the Polish government had itself helped negotiate it, that was not the case, they wrote.
Read more at: Poland, Hungary face growing calls to drop EU budget veto | News | DW | 08.12.2020
11/27/20
EU - Disrespect rule of law by Poland and Hungary: The rule of law: a simple phrase with exacting demands – by Albena Azmanova and Kalypso Nicolaidis
That the European Union, in its moment of public healthcare emergency and acute economic plight, should find itself paralysed over such a seemingly abstract matter as the rule of law is one of the great paradoxes of our times. And yet this is exactly the conundrum plaguing approval of the EU’s seven-year budget and recovery fund, totalling €1.81 trillion, which Poland and Hungary have been blocking over rule-of-law conditionality for the funds’ disbursement.
Read more at: The rule of law: a simple phrase with exacting demands – Albena Azmanova and Kalypso Nicolaidis
Read more at: The rule of law: a simple phrase with exacting demands – Albena Azmanova and Kalypso Nicolaidis
11/26/20
EU Counter Measures To Be Taken- Article 7: Hungary and Poland maintain united front blocking EU COVID-19 recovery fund
The leaders of Hungary and Poland have vowed to maintain a united front and uphold their veto of the EU's budget and its massive pandemic relief fund.
They continue to oppose the mechanism that ties funding for countries to rule of law principles, arguing that the EU plan risks derailing the bloc.
" Note EU-Digest: Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union should be applied, which is a procedure in the treaties of the European Union (EU) to suspend certain rights from a member state and consequently stop all funding to these two countries within this legal framework".
Read more at: Hungary and Poland maintain united front blocking EU COVID-19 recovery fund | Euronews
They continue to oppose the mechanism that ties funding for countries to rule of law principles, arguing that the EU plan risks derailing the bloc.
" Note EU-Digest: Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union should be applied, which is a procedure in the treaties of the European Union (EU) to suspend certain rights from a member state and consequently stop all funding to these two countries within this legal framework".
Read more at: Hungary and Poland maintain united front blocking EU COVID-19 recovery fund | Euronews
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