Hungary head for crisis as Brussels cuts off lifelines

Shortly after Orban’s election in April, where he soundly defeated a pro-EU coalition of all the opposition parties, the Commission froze €21bn of EU funds.

Brussels accused Budapest of sliding back on the rule of law, which it said puts EU money at risk.

Zoltan Kovacs, a minister and Orban’s international press spokesman, blames an ideological war between Western liberal EU member states and the Conservative East for the impasse.

“This is a sign of a war of culture which is trying to suggest there is no place anymore for medium and small size countries to have a national patriotic approach,” Kovacs says.

“These ideologised topics like gender and LGTBQ rights are for some reason on the top of the agenda but they are not right.”

Telegraph 26 October 2022

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/10/26/eus-black-sheep-head-crisis-brussels-cuts-lifelines/

Habsburgs picknick och slutet på järnridån och kommunismen

Mer än 600 östtyskar flyr den 19 augusti 1989 från Ungern till Österrike. De ungerska gränssoldaterna vänder ryggen till när järnridån öppnas på glänt.

Tre månader senare faller Berlinmuren.

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2009/08/habsburgs-pcknick-och-slutet-pa.html