The EU countries are tired of the post of prime minister of Hungarian Viktor Orban.
Bloomberg writes that Orban often looks like a random person in the EU. He is called the Trojan horse and the man of Putin, far from the ideals of freedom and democracy.
After a major Russian invasion of Ukraine, he actually resists the efforts of this event to help Kyiv, and is the only voice that calls for the abolition of sanctions against the Russian Federation.
With his return to his ideological ally, Donald Trump Orban, with his return to the White House, perhaps hoped that his influence in Europe would grow.
Nevertheless, it looks more isolated than when, the weakening of Trump NATO encourages European countries to bring their benches closer.
Orban wrote many times on a veto to block the decisions of the EU, which needed unanimous support of 27 member states.
In particular, sending military and financial assistance to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.
The decisions were made only after Orban managed to achieve some concessions from other countries.
This complicated the EU with the opportunity to act as a united front on global issues and check the boundaries of the consensus approach of the bloc to the formation of politics.
This position of Orban may have brought him financial benefits. In 2022, the European Commission replaced the financing of Hungary with 30 billion euros from the concern for the rule of law in the country. In December 2023, this allowed Hungary to access a third of these funds.
The decision was made on the eve of the decisive vote of the EU for help from Ukraine and a potential future membership in the country in the EU. In the end, Orban lost to both questions, ”journalists recall.
To get around the veto Orban, the EU member states are forced to resort to creative maneuvers.
At the end of 2023, the Prime Minister of Hungary agreed to take a coffee break during the summit, who allowed the 26 leaders who remained in the hall to vote for the beginning of negotiations with Ukraine to join the EU.
At an extraordinary summit on March 6, the EU leaders ignored the opposition of Orban, promising adamant support to Ukraine, even after the prime minister of Hungary refused to sign the final communique.
In the conditions when the EU is preparing for a trade war with the United States and plans the most repeated equipment since the Cold War, there is a request to find a more effective way to stop Orban, which postpones the adoption of important and urgent decisions.
Organize breaks in coffee or repeated amounts only to argue with one member of the Union from 27 countries until it retreats, not too effective.
A few recent initiatives, declared by President Ursula von der Lien, do not need the support of all member states.
This, in particular, is the distribution of new loans in the amount of 150 billion euros and the provision of member countries with a large financial space for defense costs.
But unanimous decisions will still be necessary in critical issues. Among them, the continuation of sanctions against Russia, whose actions expired at the end of July or attract additional hundreds of billions of dollars in defense due to total debt.
President of Lithuania Khitanas Naussus said after the summit on March 6 that it was time to “learn not to give one person to torpedo the entire decision -making process.”
And Finland Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen announced the need to create a “coalition of those who want” to circumvent the “internal opposition”.
Earlier, the deputy of the European Parliament and the external defense of Lithuania Raskniviten announced the intention of members of European spectacles in order to deprive Hungary of the right of vote. Group Group offers to create a mechanism that cannot be blocked by one veto.
You buy one staff outside – and it is not so expensive for paralysis in the European Union.
There is still a special article according to which the decision can be made by a majority of votes if you need to make any emergency decision. But I see and feel that patience has already ended with members of the European parliament and members of the Council of Europe, because he obviously works against the EU, ”Yuknivichyevich said“ zealous time ”.
After the unofficial European summit in London on March 2, the head of European diplomacy, Kai Callas took a similar initiative.
She admitted that the blocking of Hungary by the decision of the EU to provide assistance to Ukraine becomes a complication for the community, because “one country cannot block everyone.”
Yuknivitin suggests that Orban’s desire to bring a veto to Hungarians, who use all the advantages of membership in the country in the EU, “but does not understand that this person is fighting only against those who give their good now.”
Source: Racurs
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