Showing posts with label Viktor Orbán. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viktor Orbán. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
‘Cautionary Tale’: Trump Wants to ‘Remake America’ — Like This Recession-plagued Country
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
Trump's Favourite European Ally Just Got BRUTALLY Roasted
What did I write yesterday? That Orbán is Putin’s marionette. Click here – Mark
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Hungary's Orban Says Corks Will Pop If Trump Wins US Election! MEPs Reply Singing 'Bella Ciao'
Es redet Putins Marionette! – © Mark Alexander
Orbán's concern for the rights of gays in the EU due to illegal immigration is a bit rich, isn't it? Especially when the rights of gays in Hungary leave so much to be desired. Check out this article by Human Rights Watch as just one example of Orbán’s faux concern for gay rights in the EU!
LGBT Rights Under Renewed Pressure in Hungary: Children Harmed in the Name of Protection »
And this one:
As Governments Demonize LGBTQ+ Rights, Children Lose the Most »
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
‘This Is Not the Eurovision.’ Orban Gets a Hostile Serenade
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Some European Parliament members sang “Bella Ciao,” a song associated with antifascism, for Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary until ordered to stop.
For years, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, a champion of “illiberal democracy,” has taken swipes at the European Union and its officials.
And they have not been shy about criticizing him back.
On Wednesday, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, some members took that to a new level — in song. As Mr. Orban arrived at the Parliament to deliver a speech, progressives greeted him with a rendition of “Bella Ciao,” an Italian antifascist resistance song from the World War II-era.
Their musical taunt, which lasted for less than a minute, was shut down by the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, as other members more politically in tune with the conservative Mr. Orban chanted slogans supporting him.
“This is not the Eurovision,” Ms. Metsola told the chamber. She wryly noted that the song was more “Money Heist,” a Spanish television series about a bank heist that features the haunting music of “Bella Ciao,” than Abba, the Swedish pop group that was propelled to fame after winning Eurovision 50 years ago. » | Jenny Gross, Reporting from Brussels | Wednesday, October 9, 2024
For years, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, a champion of “illiberal democracy,” has taken swipes at the European Union and its officials.
And they have not been shy about criticizing him back.
On Wednesday, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, some members took that to a new level — in song. As Mr. Orban arrived at the Parliament to deliver a speech, progressives greeted him with a rendition of “Bella Ciao,” an Italian antifascist resistance song from the World War II-era.
Their musical taunt, which lasted for less than a minute, was shut down by the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, as other members more politically in tune with the conservative Mr. Orban chanted slogans supporting him.
“This is not the Eurovision,” Ms. Metsola told the chamber. She wryly noted that the song was more “Money Heist,” a Spanish television series about a bank heist that features the haunting music of “Bella Ciao,” than Abba, the Swedish pop group that was propelled to fame after winning Eurovision 50 years ago. » | Jenny Gross, Reporting from Brussels | Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
America and Hungary, a Far-Right Love Affair
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán Warns EU on Path to ‘Self-destruction’
THE GUARDIAN: Far-right leader talks of new Asia-oriented world order and throws support behind Donald Trump
Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said on Saturday that the EU was sliding toward oblivion, in a rambling anti-west speech in which he warned of a new, Asia-oriented “world order” while throwing his support behind Donald Trump’s US presidential bid.
“Europe has given up defending its own interests,” Orbán said in Băile Tuşnad, a majority ethnic Hungarian town in central Romania. “All Europe is doing today is following the US’s pro-Democrat foreign policy unconditionally … even at the cost of self-destruction.
“A change is coming that has not been seen for 500 years. What we are facing is in fact a world order change,” he added, naming China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia as becoming the “dominant centre” of the world. » | Associated Press | Saturday, July 27, 2024
Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said on Saturday that the EU was sliding toward oblivion, in a rambling anti-west speech in which he warned of a new, Asia-oriented “world order” while throwing his support behind Donald Trump’s US presidential bid.
“Europe has given up defending its own interests,” Orbán said in Băile Tuşnad, a majority ethnic Hungarian town in central Romania. “All Europe is doing today is following the US’s pro-Democrat foreign policy unconditionally … even at the cost of self-destruction.
“A change is coming that has not been seen for 500 years. What we are facing is in fact a world order change,” he added, naming China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia as becoming the “dominant centre” of the world. » | Associated Press | Saturday, July 27, 2024
Friday, July 12, 2024
What Is Hungary’s Orbán Trying to Achieve with His 'Peace Missions'? | DW News
Jul 12, 2024 | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán traveled to the US state of Florida on Thursday, where he met with former President Donald Trump following a NATO summit in Washington.
The meeting is part of Orbán's self-proclaimed "peace mission" to end Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is likely to add to frustration among Western allies over similar secret trips he has made to Russia and China in the past few days.
The meeting is part of Orbán's self-proclaimed "peace mission" to end Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is likely to add to frustration among Western allies over similar secret trips he has made to Russia and China in the past few days.
Freundschaftsbesuch in Florida: Orbán bei Trump
Saturday, July 06, 2024
EU Leaders Criticize Hungarian Prime Minister for 'Peace Trip' to Russia | DW News
Jul 5, 2024 | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday to discuss the war in Ukraine. Putin said he wanted to take the opportunity to "discuss the nuances that have developed" over the conflict with Orbán. Orbán said at a press conference with Putin in Moscow that Hungary viewed its six-month stint holding the rotating European Council presidency as a peace mission.
"Many steps are needed to end the war, but we took the first step to restore dialogue," Orbén said, adding that "points of view remained far from each other in Kyiv and Moscow." The Hungarian PM also visited Kyiv, for the first time since Russia's invasion, earlier in the week.
"Many steps are needed to end the war, but we took the first step to restore dialogue," Orbén said, adding that "points of view remained far from each other in Kyiv and Moscow." The Hungarian PM also visited Kyiv, for the first time since Russia's invasion, earlier in the week.
Sunday, June 30, 2024
‘Make Europe Great Again’: Hungary Sets Scene for Its EU Presidency
THE GUARDIAN: Many of bloc’s diplomats fear a six-month ‘fiasco’ with Viktor Orbán’s government overseeing the agenda
A screenshot from this article in the Guardian.
For months, it was rumoured that Hungary planned to use a reworked version of Donald Trump’s slogan for its upcoming EU presidency: Make Europe Great Again. That idea “sounded so lame and ridiculous that we refrained from reporting it”, Szabolcs Panyi, one of Hungary’s leading investigative journalists, wrote on X this month. “We were wrong.”
On 1 July, under that Trumpian banner, Hungary will take on the six-month rotating presidency of the EU council of ministers. As well as a spell in the diplomatic limelight, Viktor Orbán’s government will be setting the EU agenda for the rest of the year.
EU diplomats are downbeat, but resigned to Hungary’s six months in charge. Since Orbán returned to power in 2010, going on to win four consecutive terms, democratic values, the rule of law and press freedom in Hungary have withered, according to numerous independent bodies. » | Jennifer Rankin in Brussels | Sunday, June 30, 2024
I wish I could hibernate (and wake up when it’s all over)! The thought of Trump trying to make “America Great Again” Stateside and Orbán trying to make Europe great again this side of the Pond is enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine. What is Orbán going to try and do, I wonder? Ape Trump? – © Mark Alexander
For months, it was rumoured that Hungary planned to use a reworked version of Donald Trump’s slogan for its upcoming EU presidency: Make Europe Great Again. That idea “sounded so lame and ridiculous that we refrained from reporting it”, Szabolcs Panyi, one of Hungary’s leading investigative journalists, wrote on X this month. “We were wrong.”
On 1 July, under that Trumpian banner, Hungary will take on the six-month rotating presidency of the EU council of ministers. As well as a spell in the diplomatic limelight, Viktor Orbán’s government will be setting the EU agenda for the rest of the year.
EU diplomats are downbeat, but resigned to Hungary’s six months in charge. Since Orbán returned to power in 2010, going on to win four consecutive terms, democratic values, the rule of law and press freedom in Hungary have withered, according to numerous independent bodies. » | Jennifer Rankin in Brussels | Sunday, June 30, 2024
I wish I could hibernate (and wake up when it’s all over)! The thought of Trump trying to make “America Great Again” Stateside and Orbán trying to make Europe great again this side of the Pond is enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine. What is Orbán going to try and do, I wonder? Ape Trump? – © Mark Alexander
Saturday, February 17, 2024
This Is the Super-scandal that Should Bring Down Viktor Orbán – and It’s Far from Over
THE GUARDIAN: Hungary’s president quit over the fallout of a child abuse case, but the ‘pro-family’ prime minister still has questions to answer
Screenshot from the Guardian | Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán at a press conference in Budapest, December 2023. | Photograph: Denes Erdos/AP
After nearly 14 years running Hungary, Viktor Orbán’s regime is crumbling under the weight of its own hypocrisies. The country’s president, Katalin Novák, a close Orbán ally, was forced to resign in disgrace earlier this month for issuing a pardon to a man convicted of helping cover up a sex abuse case at a children’s home. The former justice minister, Judit Varga, who approved the decision, also quit. This followed a tumultuous week of public outcry and protests in Budapest.
The scandal has not only rocked Orbán’s autocratic government to its core, it has laid bare the phoney nature of his self-declared Christian, family-values agenda. It has also exposed what little power even high-ranking political figures wield under Orbán’s de facto one-person rule: at the drop of a hat, he appears ready to dispose of close allies, even the supposedly independent president of the republic, to avoid accountability himself. » | Katalin Cseh | Saturday, February 17, 2024
After nearly 14 years running Hungary, Viktor Orbán’s regime is crumbling under the weight of its own hypocrisies. The country’s president, Katalin Novák, a close Orbán ally, was forced to resign in disgrace earlier this month for issuing a pardon to a man convicted of helping cover up a sex abuse case at a children’s home. The former justice minister, Judit Varga, who approved the decision, also quit. This followed a tumultuous week of public outcry and protests in Budapest.
The scandal has not only rocked Orbán’s autocratic government to its core, it has laid bare the phoney nature of his self-declared Christian, family-values agenda. It has also exposed what little power even high-ranking political figures wield under Orbán’s de facto one-person rule: at the drop of a hat, he appears ready to dispose of close allies, even the supposedly independent president of the republic, to avoid accountability himself. » | Katalin Cseh | Saturday, February 17, 2024
Thursday, February 01, 2024
EU Agrees on €50 Billion Ukraine Aid Package | DW News
Feb 1, 2024 | Just one hour into the EU's special summit, EU leaders managed to reach a deal that will allow the bloc to send €50 billion ($54 billion) in funding to Ukraine over the next four years, according to European Council President Charles Michel.
The deal had been blocked by Hungary since the previous leaders' summit in Brussels in mid-December. "We have a deal," Michel wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "This locks in steadfast, long-term, predictable funding for Ukraine."
The deal had been blocked by Hungary since the previous leaders' summit in Brussels in mid-December. "We have a deal," Michel wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "This locks in steadfast, long-term, predictable funding for Ukraine."
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Anne Applebaum: Orbán Evidence of What a Determined, Anti-democratic Figure Can Do
Orbán should be kicked out of the EU. Hungarians belong in the EU, but not under Orbán’s leadership. Orbán is one of Putin’s stooges. – © Mark Alexander
Sunday, December 17, 2023
UE : Frieden a fait face au dissident Orban
LE QUOTIDIEN: Quelques heures à peine après la décision «historique» de s’ouvrir à l’Ukraine, prise sans la Hongrie, Viktor Orban est venu bloquer le paquet financier de 50 milliards d’euros destiné à Kiev. Le Premier ministre luxembourgeois connaît désormais l’enfant terrible du Conseil européen, qui agit seul contre tous.
Pour sa grande première au Conseil européen, réunissant les 27 chefs d’État et de gouvernement de l’UE, le nouveau Premier ministre luxembourgeois n’a pas eu le temps de tergiverser. «Ce fut un sommet particulier, parce que l’on était amenés à prendre une décision stratégique très importante, qui va trouver place dans les livres d’histoire», avance Luc Frieden, au bout de deux jours et demi d’intenses tractations à Bruxelles, lancées dès mercredi soir lors du sommet avec les Balkans occidentaux.
La décision «historique» est bien la validation de l’ouverture de négociations d’adhésion avec l’Ukraine, mais aussi avec la Moldavie. Les circonstances dans lesquelles ce feu vert a été accordé vont aussi marquer l’histoire européenne. Sur proposition du chancelier allemand, Olaf Scholz, le Premier ministre hongrois, Viktor Orban, a en effet quitté la salle du Conseil pour libérer la voie à un consensus qualifié par Luc Frieden de «leçon pour Poutine» et d’un message «pour montrer que nous ne laissons pas l’Ukraine seule». » | De David Marques | samedi 16 décembre 2023
Pour sa grande première au Conseil européen, réunissant les 27 chefs d’État et de gouvernement de l’UE, le nouveau Premier ministre luxembourgeois n’a pas eu le temps de tergiverser. «Ce fut un sommet particulier, parce que l’on était amenés à prendre une décision stratégique très importante, qui va trouver place dans les livres d’histoire», avance Luc Frieden, au bout de deux jours et demi d’intenses tractations à Bruxelles, lancées dès mercredi soir lors du sommet avec les Balkans occidentaux.
La décision «historique» est bien la validation de l’ouverture de négociations d’adhésion avec l’Ukraine, mais aussi avec la Moldavie. Les circonstances dans lesquelles ce feu vert a été accordé vont aussi marquer l’histoire européenne. Sur proposition du chancelier allemand, Olaf Scholz, le Premier ministre hongrois, Viktor Orban, a en effet quitté la salle du Conseil pour libérer la voie à un consensus qualifié par Luc Frieden de «leçon pour Poutine» et d’un message «pour montrer que nous ne laissons pas l’Ukraine seule». » | De David Marques | samedi 16 décembre 2023
Friday, December 15, 2023
Putin Makes Emboldened Speech - as EU Opens Ukraine Accession Talks | Russia-Ukraine War
Friday, October 20, 2023
European Leaders Seethe over Putin-Orbán Meeting
GUARDIAN EUROPE: Czech president calls on western capitals not to fall for Russian leader’s tactic to break European unity
Viktor Orbán (left) and Vladimir Putin shake hands on Tuesday before their meeting as part of the Chinese belt and road forum in Beijing. Photograph: Grigory Sysoev/Sputnik/Kremlin/EPA
European leaders must not “fall” for the tactics of Vladimir Putin, the Czech president, Petr Pavel, has said, two days after Hungary’s prime minister shook hands with Russia’s leader.
Viktor Orbán, in a rare move for the leader of a country that belongs to the EU and Nato, met Putin in Beijing on Tuesday for what the Hungarian leader’s office described as a discussion on energy cooperation and peace.
Hungary has long been criticised for democratic backsliding at home and its Russia- and China-friendly policies abroad.
Its foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, routinely visits Moscow. And in a move that has frustrated its allies, Hungary – along with Turkey – has yet to ratify Sweden’s application for Nato membership. » | Lili Bayer in Brussels | Friday, Octoner 20, 2023
European leaders must not “fall” for the tactics of Vladimir Putin, the Czech president, Petr Pavel, has said, two days after Hungary’s prime minister shook hands with Russia’s leader.
Viktor Orbán, in a rare move for the leader of a country that belongs to the EU and Nato, met Putin in Beijing on Tuesday for what the Hungarian leader’s office described as a discussion on energy cooperation and peace.
Hungary has long been criticised for democratic backsliding at home and its Russia- and China-friendly policies abroad.
Its foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, routinely visits Moscow. And in a move that has frustrated its allies, Hungary – along with Turkey – has yet to ratify Sweden’s application for Nato membership. » | Lili Bayer in Brussels | Friday, Octoner 20, 2023
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Ungarn soll ausländische Firmen aus der EU benachteiligen | DW Nachrichten
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