Posted on 08/02/2021 2:45:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
HUNGARY could quit the European Union before the end of the decade once it becomes a net contributor to the bloc's budget, according to the country's finance minister.
Mihaly Varga said Budapest’s membership of the EU could fall under questioning if its budget payments increase and Brussels continues to launch political attacks on the government. If a referendum was held on Hungary’s EU membership this year, the minister said he would support continued participation in the bloc. But Mr Varga warned this could soon change.
He said: “If there was such a question in 2021, I’d be among those who’d vote yes.
“But by the end of the decade, when according to our calculations we’d become net payers in the EU, the question may be in a new perspective, especially if the attacks by Brussels over values become sustained.”
The issue of Hungary’s EU membership is likely to be a key theme of next year’s parliamentary election.
The ballot is expected to be the closest contest since anti-Brussels prime minister Viktor Orban won power in 2010.
The strongman leader is facing growing opposition with a single goal to oust him, roll back his national power grabs and restore relations with Brussels.
Unlike Britain, which became the first country to quit the EU, Hungary has been one of the bloc’s biggest recipients of funding from Brussels’ coffers.
Budapest joined the EU in 2004 as part of an enlargement project that brought in nine other, mostly formerly communist, nations into the bloc.
Mr Orban has repeatedly claimed he has no intention to take Hungary out of the EU.
But he has used his leadership to challenge Brussels’ power, in moves his critics claim are increasingly authoritarian.
At the end of last year, Hungary, as well as Poland, threatened to veto the EU’s 2021-207 budget over concerns that new rules could see funds withheld from rogue states.
Both Budapest and Warsaw are currently subject to so-called Article 7 challenges amid claims of flouting EU rules.
It could eventually end with both rogue states having their voting rights removed.
National governments across the EU are becoming increasingly frustrated with Budapest, especially its controversial proposals for an anti-LGBT law.
At the June meeting of the European Council, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told Mr Orban that his country had “no business being in the European Union any more” after Hungary approved the legislation.
And Hungary is currently fighting for Brussels to approve its spending plans for access to the EU’s coronavirus recovery fund.
The European Commission has delayed its decision to approve Budapest’s plans.
Eurocrats argue there are concerns with corruption as well as threats to the independence of the country’s judiciary.
As a result, they have held back on making a decision that would open the flood gates to £6.1billion of EU funding to Hungary.
The Hungarian government has said it will pre-finance the pandemic funding if the EU continues to delay its decision.
Mr Varga accused Brussels of pursuing “political charges” against Budapest.
He said: “The country doesn’t have time for this back-and-forth, that’s why we’re going to launch the national plan from our own resources.”
HEXIT!
What’s “Whaddaya waitin’ for??” in Magyar?
Hungary has not switched to the Euro...
"Elmegyünk innen és kopj le"
and if they don't understand that, there's this:
😂😂
Hungary was betrayed by the Muslims in 1541 as they came bearing gifts and captured Buda.
This led to Hungary being governed by Muslims for 150 years.
Unlike the EU, they do not welcome Muslim immigrants. They remember 1541.
“The Ottomans then occupied the city, which in its turn was celebrating the liberation, with a trick: Suleiman the Magnificent invited the infant John II Sigismund Zápolya with the Hungarian noblemen into his tent, meanwhile the Turkish troops began to slowly infiltrate into the fort as “tourists” seemingly in admiration of the architecture of the buildings. However, at a sudden alert they wielded their weapons and disarmed the guards and the whole garrison thereafter. At the same time, the Hungarian noblemen felt uncomfortable in the sultan’s tent and wanted to leave. In that moment, on the outcry of the sultan “The black soup (coffee) is still to come!” (Hungarian: “Hátra van még a feketeleves!”) the Turkish soldiers disarmed the Hungarian envoy. “
Go Hungary, Go!(not sure whether to put in a sarc or not)
“Let’s get out of here and knock it off”
That’s way too polite...
I just spent a few weeks in Hungary and going back in a few months. Love the country and the people.
I hope they leave. Hungary is a nice place. Don’t let the EU screw it up.
What’s “Whaddaya waitin’ for??” in Magyar?
“Mire vár még ??
Thanks. My mom is Hungarian, met my dad overseas. And we’re also Jewish so there is that as well.
Hungarians were probably the worst vassal from the Soviet point of view. They revolted in 1956 and when back in subjugation were the most undermining and “liberal” of the Warsaw pact countries. They set in motion the events of 1989 by opening up the border between Hungary and Austria allowing East Germans to freely flow into West Germany setting up the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the division of Germany and ultimately the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.
January 9, 1852
Resolved, 1. That it is the right of any people, sufficiently numerous for national independence, to throw off, to revolutionize, their existing form of government, and to establish such other in its stead as they may choose.
I guess he changed his mind about 9 years later.
Don’t think so. Probably still thought Hungary should be independent. Plus Hungary wasn’t trying to preserve slavery like secesh was.
Poland will go along with them.
I hope finally there will be Intermarium, a Confederation of the Central European States, independent from the EU.
The EU is a grand scheme to eliminate the individual countries and to create a super state which will erase national identities and allow millions of bearded ones to overrun the area and eliminate Western Civilization.
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