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Mass protests in Hungary over child sex abuse scandal
Tens of thousands of people protested in #Budapest on Feb. 16 over a #ChildSexAbuse scandal that has rocked the government of #Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban and caused a series of resignations.
The wave of discontent arose after it was revealed that President Katalin Novak, who resigned on Feb. 10, pardoned a man convicted of covering up widespread sex abuse at a government-run children's home.
As the backlash has grown, the scandal has expanded beyond the controversial pardon into direct criticism of Orban's government and associated cronyism and corruption.
https://kyivindependent.com/mass-protests-in-hungary-over-child-sex-abuse-scandal/
Pressure on Orban grows amid child sex abuse scandal
Hungarian opposition leaders gathered in front of the prime minister's office on Feb. 15, denouncing Orban's silence on the issue and saying it indicated deeper structural problems within Fidesz.
"Orban's regime has fallen into a moral and political crisis," said Andras Fekete-Gyor of the opposition Momentum party.
As the backlash has grown, the scandal has expanded beyond the controversial pardon into direct criticism of Orban's government and associated #cronyism and corruption.
Former Orban ally and Varga's ex-husband, Peter Magyar, released a widely viewed video on Facebook on Feb. 11 denouncing corruption in #Fidesz and across Hungary.
"It must be said now that this cannot go on," Magyar said, rhetorically questioning whether Hungarians think it is "normal" that "a few families own half the country."
https://kyivindependent.com/pressure-on-orban-grows-amid-child-sex-abuse-scandal/
#Hungary seen as most corrupt country in the #EU, study finds
Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-orban-corruption-transparency-international/
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Ukraine, Russia fight from the skies as Kyiv’s EU aid hangs in the balance
A key summit focuses on aid as Russia says it will increase air defence missile production.#Russia-Ukrainewar #Europe #Hungary #Russia #Ukraine
Ukraine, Russia fight from the skies as Kyiv’s EU aid hangs in the balance
ISW: Russia exploiting far-right #nationalism in Europe against Ukraine
Russia is taking advantage of European far-right nationalist movements' increasingly vocal claims to Ukrainian #territory, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported in its daily assessment on Jan. 29.
Far-right movements in #Hungary and #Romania raised concern this past week after party leaders in their respective countries claimed parts of Ukrainian territory.
https://kyivindependent.com/isw-russia-exploiting-far-right-nationalism-in-europe-against-ukraine/
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Ukraine funding, Orban’s opposition set to dominate crucial EU summit
Resistance to further aid for Kyiv is growing ahead of meeting that comes almost two years into Russia's war in Ukraine.#Russia-Ukrainewar #Europe #Hungary #Ukraine
Ukraine funding, Orban’s opposition set to dominate crucial EU summit
Swedish PM Kristersson agrees to meet Hungary’s Orban for talks on NATO bid
After ratification by Turkey, Hungary is the only country left effectively holding up Sweden's NATO membership.#NATO #Russia-Ukrainewar #Europe #Hungary #Sweden
Swedish PM Kristersson agrees to meet Hungary’s Orban for talks on NATO bid
Trump Allies Plot to Take Over the European Union
The Far Right, the War in Ukraine, and the Future of the Green Deal
Tom Dispatch
It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine.
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As 2023 ended, European nations failed to agree on a $54-billion package of assistance for Ukraine at a time when that country was desperately trying to stay afloat and continue its fight against Russian occupation forces. Bizarrely, the failure of that proposal coincided with a surprising EU decision to open membership talks with that beleaguered country. (...)
One person, right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, is largely responsible for that contradictory combo. (...) [H]e expects [European Parliamentary elections in early June of this year] to signal a political sea change, with conservative and far-right forces — think of them as Donald Trump’s allies in Europe — replacing the parliament’s current centrist consensus. (...)
Orbán allowed consensus [on EU-membership for Ukraine] to prevail, but only because he knew he still had plenty of time to pull the plug on Ukraine’s bid. (...)
But even if Orbán’s resistance were to be overcome, a larger challenge looms: the European Union that will make the final determination on Ukraine’s membership may not prove to be the same regional body as at present. (...)
In retrospect, the departure of the United Kingdom from the EU in 2020 may prove to have been just a minor speedbump compared to what Europe faces with the war in Ukraine, the recent success of far-right parties in Italy and the Netherlands, and the prospect that, after the next election, a significantly more conservative European Parliament could at the very least slow the roll-out of the European Green Deal. (...)
Although mainstream European parties had historically been reluctant to form governments with the far right, some have now opportunistically chosen to do so. Far-right parties now serve in governments in Sweden and Finland, while leading coalitions in Italy and Slovakia. (...)
Such gestures toward the center have also characterized the strategy of Giorgia Meloni, the head of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, who downplayed its fascist roots and pledged to support both NATO and the EU to win enough centrist backing to become Italy’s current prime minister.
But what happens if there’s no longer a political center that must be wooed?
That’s been the case in Hungary since Viktor Orbán took over as prime minister in 2010. He has systematically dismantled judicial, legislative, and constitutional checks on his power, while simultaneously marginalizing his political opposition. Nor does he have to compromise with the center, since it’s effectively dropped out of Hungarian politics. and he and his allies are eager to export their Hungarian model to the rest of Europe. Worse yet, they’ve got a strong tailwind. In 2024, the far-right is on track to win elections in both Austria and Belgium, while Marine Le Pen’s far-right party leads the polls in France and the equally intemperate, anti-immigrant Alternative fur Deutschland is running a strong second to the center-right in Germany.
No less ominously, the Identity and Democracy bloc, which includes the major French and German far-right parties, is projected to gain more than two dozen seats in the European parliamentary elections this June. (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long wanted to undercut European unity as part of an effort to divide the West. With that in mind, he forged alliances with far-right political parties like Italy’s Lega and Austria’s Freedom Party to sow havoc in European politics. His careful cultivation of Orbán has made Hungary functionally his country’s European proxy. (...)
[O]n one key issue [Europe’s right wing parties are] now converging. They used to disagree on whether to support leaving the EU, Brexit-style, or staying to fight. Now, they largely favor a take-over-from-within strategy. And to make that happen, they’ve coalesced around two key issues: the strengthening of “Fortress Europe” to keep out those fleeing the Global South and frontally assaulting that cornerstone of recent EU policy, the Green energy transition. (...)
A report from the Center for American Progress concludes that European far-right groups “frame environmental policies as elitist while stoking economic anxiety and nationalism, which erodes trust in democratic institutions and further distracts from genuine environmental concerns.” Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway are even more pointed: “Populist far-right parties portray fossil fuel phase-out as a threat to traditional family values, regional identity, and national sovereignty.” (...)
Worse yet, the backlash against Europe’s Green turn has expanded to efforts in the European Parliament to block pesticide reduction and weaken legislation on the reduction of packaging. (...)
From Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin to Marine Le Pen at the reactionary barricades in Paris, the far right is fighting over the very future of European ideals. (...)
But Orbán and his allies have a far more radical mission in mind: to transform European identity. (...)
In other words, the EU is still a beacon for progressives around the world (notwithstanding the neoliberal reforms that are regressively remaking its economic space). (...)
Even as the EU contemplates expansion eastward, a revolt from within threatens to bring about the end of Europe itself — the end, that is, of the liberal and tolerant social welfare state, of a collective commitment to economic solidarity, and of its leading role in addressing climate change. The battle between a democratic Ukraine and the autocratic Russian petrostate is, in other words, intimately connected to the conflicts being waged in Brussels. (...)
Without a powerful left defending Europe’s gold-standard social safety nets, libertarians are likely to advance their attempts to eat away at or eliminate the regulatory state. Without Europe’s lead, global efforts to address climate change will grow dangerously more diffuse.
Sound familiar? That’s also the agenda of the far-right in the United States, led by Donald Trump. (...)
Tags: #eu #european_union #ukraine #russia #far_right #green_deal #hungary #orban #poland #italy #meloni #germany #france #lepen #netherlands #wilders
Slovak PM promises to block Ukraine's NATO entry, says it must cede territory
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico came out with another anti-Ukrainian public statement on Jan. 20, telling Slovak radio that he would block Ukraine's accession to NATO.
Fico is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on Jan. 24.
The Slovak premier, who consistently joins Hungarian leader Viktor Orban in repeating Russian talking points about Ukraine, then claimed that Kyiv is dominated by Washington.
He said Ukraine will have to give a piece of its territory to Russia, which he called a "compromise."
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianImperialism #RussianAggression #Imperialism #WarCrimes #Slovak #Hungary #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
European Parliament backs resolution calling for suspending Hungary's EU voting rights
The European Parliament supported on Jan. 18 the resolution calling on the European Council and member states to suspend Hungary's voting rights, said Petri Sarvamaa, a senior member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Earlier this month, Sarvamaa launched a petition to remove some of Budapest's membership rights due to the country's "erosion of the rule of law" and obstructive behavior in the face of EU #consensus building.
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European Parliament to vote on resolution stripping Hungary of EU voting rights on Jan. 18
The European Parliament will vote later this week on a resolution that calls for stripping Hungary of its voting rights at the European Council, MEP Petri Sarvamaa said
Earlier this month, Sarvamaa launched a petition to remove some of #Budapest's membership rights, including voting, due to the country's "erosion of the rule of law" and obstructive behavior in the face of EU #consensus building.
https://kyivindependent.com/european-parliament-to-vote-on-stripping-hungary-of-eu-voting-rights/
#Hungary #EU #UkraineAid #EU #Orban #law #EuropeanUnion #VotingRights
EU chief says aid package for Ukraine will be approved 'with or without' Hungary's approval
In December 2023, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban blocked the deal hours after the group agreed it would formally commence full membership talks with Ukraine.
Between August and October 2023, the amount of fresh aid to Ukraine decreased by 87% compared to the same period in 2022, according to a study by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
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EU lawmakers push on with move to try and limit Hungary’s voting rights
More than 100 members of European Parliament argue the move is 'necessary' to protect the values of the European Union.#EuropeanUnion #Europe #Hungary
EU lawmakers push on with move to try and limit Hungary’s voting rights
Turkey’s Erdogan and Hungary’s Orban pledge to strengthen ties in Budapest
The two countries are the only holdouts in NATO to not have ratified Sweden's bid to join the transatlantic alliance.#NATO #Europe #Hungary #MiddleEast #Turkey
Turkey’s Erdogan and Hungary’s Orban pledge to strengthen ties in Budapest
Has the Ukraine war made Europe politically mature — or more transactional?
Even as the EU invited Ukraine for membership talks, deep divisions are now visible after a year of rare unity.#Russia-Ukrainewar #Europe #Germany #Hungary #Russia #Ukraine
Has the Ukraine war made Europe politically mature — or more transactional?
EU votes for accession talks with Ukraine, but Hungary blocks aid | Inside Story
Mixed messages are being sent from Brussels to Kyiv. The European Union votes to advance accession talks for Ukraine, but Hungary blocks billions of dollars ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #EU #EUAccession #EUSummit #EUSummitinBrussels #EUvotesforaccessiontalkswithUkrainebutHungaryblocksaid #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EuropeanUnionSummit #EuropeanUnionSummitinBrussels #Europeancountries #Europeanleaders #Hungary #InsideStory #Ukraine #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
EU votes for accession talks with Ukraine, but Hungary blocks aid | Inside Story
Hungary blocks $54bn EU financial aid for Ukraine
Veto came hours after the European Union agreed to open membership talks with Ukraine in a move Hungary opposed.#EuropeanUnion #Politics #Russia-Ukrainewar #Belgium #Europe #Hungary #Russia #Ukraine
Hungary blocks $54bn EU financial aid for Ukraine
