Orbán may lose its most powerful resort in the EU: Huxit may follow

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The European Parliament wants to abolish the member state’s veto right in multiple issues, including taxation, foreign affairs and defence. They would like to introduce a new system of decision-making.

According to Blikk, the new system would be proportional decisions based on the population in each country. Such a system operates in the municipal council of Budapest. As experts agree, accepting the initiative in its original form would mean a heavy blow for PM Orbán, who used veto many times, especially after the outbreak of the Ukraine war. He even expressed that Hungary’s goal is to be “sand in the gears of the machinery, the stick caught in the spokes, the thorn in the flesh”.

Interestingly, the initiative was signed even by the MEP of the Polish government party, who is Orbán’s friend.

Provided Orbán loses his influence over the decisions of the European Council, a Huxit may become a possible scenario.

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Right-wing majority in the EU can help Orbán

A “new, right-wing majority” in the European Parliament after next year’s EP elections would give “hope for Europe again to be a safe and developing continent”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after talks with Martin Helme, the head of Estonia’s Conservative People’s Party, in Budapest on Friday. At a joint press conference, Szijjártó said Brussels “invariably gives the wrong response to the most serious economic and security challenges ever faced by the European Union”, MTI wrote.

“The liberal mainstream is trying to rule over everything in Europe and create a kind of European United States through weakening member countries to the extreme … they have launched a brutal attack against the institution of the family and pose an unprecedented danger to the European Union through (allowing) migration,” Szijjártó said. He insisted that “federal endeavours, attacks on the family and enforcing migration all work towards seriously weakening the community and practically destroy our competitiveness”.

Hungary wants a strong EU, but “it will only be possible if member states are also duly strong … but it requires that nation states should preserve their traditions, history, and practice their religion freely”, Szijjártó said. “Emptied and weak members will result only in a weak European integration,” the minister said, adding that while EU institutions “had been unable to tackle difficult situations, it was the solutions applied by nation states or in intergovernmental cooperation that worked”.

The EU is weakening quickly

“The community will be strong if it helps members states strengthen, forbears from destroying the competitiveness of national economies, pays respect to the family, and would not seek to overwrite the laws of nature,” he said. “We need to act quickly because the EU is weakening quickly and Brussels is extending its powers quickly; we must put an end to federalisation, the gender propaganda, and the influx of migration,” Szijjártó said, and called for cooperation between the right-wing conservative and Christian Democratic parties, which “must do well” in next year’s EP election. “That is why we also support the Estonian Conservative People’s Party,” Szijjártó said, and thanked the party for their “support to Hungary’s sovereignty” in recent years.

On another subject, Szijjártó dismissed allegations that “the government has in fact outsourced the Paks nuclear power plant upgrade” as nonsensical. He said Paks II Zrt, a Hungarian state company, had been contracted to build the two new blocks at the plant, adding that “I exercise the ownership rights”. He also added that only “a few minor administrative changes” had been made to the construction contract.

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