Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, long regarded as the EU’s most pro-Russian leader, has sharpened his anti-European and anti-Ukrainian rhetoric ahead of parliamentary elections next spring.
Because he is going to lose it. There was just another major pedophile scandal involving the Deputy Prime Minister raping orphans, on top of the other orphan-raping scandals and general economic fuckery.
In neighboring Slovakia, the Party of European Socialists—the largest social-democratic group in Europe—has suspended, and is expected soon to expel, its local partner SMER.
Which pretty much nullifies its influence on EU politics beyond vetos. His government is also on super shaky ground, with the coalition threatening to collapse.
In the Czech Republic, another populist and Eurosceptic—Andrej Babiš, a former prime minister and critic of Ukraine—won Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
He already backtracked and said he's pro-EU, and even with a coalition he doesn't have a supermajority.
Babiš faces an ongoing fraud trial, and his party failed to win a majority.
Nuff said.
“This aligns with an unprecedented ideological convergence between the MAGA movement and the EU’s rebel states,” said Alberto Alemanno, professor of European law and policy at HEC Paris.
They are not "rebel states", that's actually Orbán's rhetoric if anything. They are failed byproducts of German big business nearshoring efforts, along with Poland. After 2008, the German government pushed against debt for restarting the economy, so the US got ahead on us on fixing the mess - that they caused BTW.
Orbán and Merkel have used each other as scapegoats for like 10 years, Orbán being the public face of vetoing legislation that Merkel didn't want passed but couldn't sell to her voters, while Orbán played the "rebel leader" against "evil big business Merkel" and stole whole industries and a ton of EU funds.
Orbán was on the news covers in Germany, Merkel was on billboards in Hungary, the Hungarian workers had their rights taken away with unpaid overtime laws, the German workers had their unions undermined by nearshoring. Orbán never faced any consequences for stealing, Merkel could build her corpo wet dream of a German economy. They both sucked off Putin for cheap gas and didn't ask questions when Russia kept attacking its neighbours.
Shit came crusing down for them and we're in the find out phase of the European neolib fuck around.
That said, Merkel is now out of the picture, Orbán will soon be. We got off Russian energy, we're getting off of US dependencies now, the economy is not catastrophic, nobody is eating their pet hamster like on that one Russian ad.
Please stop dooming.