#prime minister orban

[orbanisztan]

Magyar Peter vs Orban Viktor

Szinkron: Radics Peti

[head-post]

Slovakia to halt diesel supplies to Ukraine if oil transit not restored

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stated that his country would stop supplying diesel fuel to Ukraine if Kyiv did not restore oil supplies from Russia’s Lukoil group through its territory, according to Euractiv.

If the transit of Russian crude through Ukraine is not renewed in a short time, [Slovak refiner] Slovnaft will not continue in supplies of diesel to Ukraine.

Slovakia and Hungary, the two countries opposing military aid to Ukraine, have been mounting pressure since Kyiv placed Lukoil on a sanctions list last month, preventing the company’s oil from passing to Slovak and Hungarian refineries.

Oil shipments through Ukraine from Russian suppliers other than Lukoil have not been interrupted. Meanwhile, Slovak supplies accounted for a tenth of diesel consumption in Ukraine, Fico stressed.

He added that he had proposed to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal a technical solution to restore halted oil flows on Friday. However, he did not provide any details about the proposal, but said that it should include several countries.

I welcome reports that relevant trading firms are already thinking about how to implement this technical solution in the shortest possible time.

The dispute revealed the extent to which some EU countries still depend on Russian energy more than two years after the bloc decided to stop importing oil from Moscow following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic have exemptions to the ban on pipeline oil imports from Russia to ensure time to find alternatives.

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Viktor Orban: Hungary's Controversial Prime Minister

Viktor Orban: The Controversial Leader of Hungary Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, has consistently found himself at odds with his fellow European Union leaders over various contentious issues. His right-wing nationalist policies regarding immigration, minority rights, the rule of law, and media freedoms have drawn significant criticism. Even more divisive has been his stance on the…

[prigorie]

Orban: nu cheltuiesc mult, nu-mi place luxul

Tot Orban: un om ar trebui să poată trăi decent din 2800-3000 de lei pe lună

Acelaşi Orban, la mai puțin de un minut după: da, păi din salariul meu net de 12 mii pe lună nu-mi mai rămâne pentru economii

De ce pula mea mai e omul ăsta considerat în orice fel relevant?

[dostoyevsky-official]

this a view of someone who's ignored european developments since 2007, opting for a rosy, outdated view of european politics, i.e. the exact type of american committing the exact type of mistake i'm warning about.

to address this point by point: not only has inflation been a global issue, but the US has consistently enjoyed the lowest inflation of any developed economy. american CPI has remained below the british, polish, and eurozone average numbers. european economies have to deal with fallout from the russian invasion of ukraine that the us can ignore: notably, in energy prices, as the US became self-sufficient in energy (and never imported any from russia to begin with, something squeezing the german economy). america is also not hosting millions of ukrainian refugees.

when discussing european instutions—and "europe" in general—one has to be more specific. do you mean the overarching institutions of the EU, criticized for a democratic deficit that many have pinpointed as one source for euro-skepticism and the rise of the far right? the EU Council, widely ignored and headed by charles michel, an incompetent, blatant nepobaby appointment whom everyone grinds their teeth over? the EU parliament, recently filled with a fresh batch of far-right hooligans, which functions more or less as a rubber stamp for the commission? the EU commission itself, headed by VdL, the latest in a string of failed local politician commissioners (who remembers the alcoholic swindler juncker?) masquerading as technocrats? the ECB, which smothers the monetary (and through the maastricht criteria, the fiscal) policy of eurozone members, thereby fueling resentment, far-right movements, and economic disparity? and all of this held hostage by the veto of one orban or fico, —or the german supreme court, when it decides it's had enough with public investment. those institutions, which remain so opaque that even educated americans—and europeans—aren't entirely aware of their function?

or do we mean the institutions of individual countries, ranging from undemocratic autocracies like hungary to the fief of the jupiter king, who called elections in june, lost them, refused to nominate a prime minister from the winning coalition, didn't name any for over a month, and then appointed a rightwing politician from a party that scored dead last, sidestepping his own centrist party? the UK, where sir keir is handing out five years in jail time to climate protesters, raising tuition fees, relying on private investment companies, and through rachel reeves' plan to fix the alleged budget hole left by hunt before further investment, again enacting austerity? this is all front-page headline news from the last half year.

european countries indeed have cheaper healthcare costs, better pensions, and other public goods that the united states does not. when considering "quality of life," remember, however, that most european countries have unemployment rates considered astronomic in america, especially for under-35s:

to focus again and again on european social democracy is to ignore that it has been steadily eroded since the end of the cold war and especially since the great recession by neoliberal political forces that crush the left and open the door for the far right. in the most blatant example, beside's macron's legislative politricks, the IMF-ECB-EC troika cut off euro cash liquidity flow to greece when syriza was trying to undo austerity under varoufakis. the greek collapse consigned a generation to economic failure, killed seniors, and curtailed possibilities for the youth. this erosion happened even in the nordic model, long imagined by americans as nothing short of a utopia:

In part due to the scrapping of wealth and inheritance taxes and a lower corporate tax than both the U.S. and European averages, Sweden has one of the most unequal distributions of wealth in the world today: on a level with Bahrain and Oman, and worse than the United States. Perhaps most dispiriting for Sanders, Sweden also now hosts the highest proportion of billionaires per capita in the world. Many of the country’s trademark social services are now provided by private firms. Its private schools even benefit from the same level of state subsidy as public schools—a voucher system far more radical than anything in the United States and that Democratic politicians would be crucified for advocating. Both here and there, right-leaning commentators in 2020 decried Sanders’s portrait as little more than what Johan Norberg, Swedish author of The Capitalist Manifesto, has called a 1970s “pipedream.” On this, Swedish observers on the left gloomily agree: despite official rhetoric, the “Nordic welfare model” is now more nostalgic myth than reality. (x)

to problematize further, there's an unadressed first world perspective: who's getting the good quality of life, why are the main economies of the EU so wealthy, and how does the EU continue to enrich itself? there are certainly many living outdoors today, drowning in the mediterranean, or dying of exposure in białowieża. fortress europe is a crime against humanity—and it doesn't beat back the far right. it weakens civic and human rights, undermines legal oversight, and criminalizes humanitarian engagement, allowing an authoritarian creep.

you shouldn't understand the political and the historical as a snapshot in time, but as a moving train. this is the state of europe today. all of the above is necessarily a simplification and an abbreviation, but there's a trajectory you can begin to trace out: given all of the above, where do you think europe is headed?

[mapsontheweb]

NATO in Europe, 2024.

by hunmapper

Hungary’s parliament overwhelmingly approved Sweden’s bid to join NATO on 26th February, clearing the way for the Nordic nation’s accession to the alliance after nearly two years of intense negotiations and dealing a geopolitical blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Getting approval from the Hungarian parliament was the final hurdle for Stockholm joining NATO. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson visited Budapest on Friday to discuss defense and security cooperation with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban. The two sides appeared to reconcile, agreeing on a deal that would see Hungary acquire four new Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets.

Of the 194 members of parliament who voted, just six rejected Sweden’s accession.

“Today is a historic day,” Kristersson said on X shortly after the vote. “Sweden stands ready to shoulder its responsibility for Euro-Atlantic security.”

[mariacallous]

After heated debate and vocal protests in the Bulgarian Parliament in August, a controversial new bill prohibiting the “propaganda, promotion, or incitement” of LGBTQ+ “ideas and views” in schools passed into law with a large majority. It was just the latest example of an alarming trend in recent years that has seen several European Union member states take active legislative steps to backtrack on LGBTQ+ rights, protections and freedoms.

It all looked quite different back at the turn of the 21st century when, in a watershed moment for LGBTQ+ rights, the Netherlands became the first EU country to legalize same-sex marriage, presaging sweeping changes across the bloc. Over the following 15 years, almost every member state introduced either marriage equality or some form of civil partnership, culminating in Ireland’s historic referendum victory on the issue in 2015. At the time, after almost two decades of significant rights advances, it seemed inconceivable that the future trajectory of the LGBTQ+ cause would be anything other than progressive.

As with so many other issues across the EU, however, the LGBTQ+ political landscape has been transformed by the rise of the far right, spearheaded by the authoritarian populism of the Fidesz party in Hungary and the Law and Justice party in Poland. During the 2010s and early 2020s, the governments in both Budapest and Warsaw relentlessly weaponized the issue of LGBTQ+ rights to solidify their conservative electoral bases, engaging in constant homophobic rhetoric, banning pride marches, arresting rights activists and introducing anti-LGBTQ+ “propaganda” laws that have increasingly pushed LGBTQ+ communities “into the shadows,” as Amnesty International put it in a February 2024 report. Though the Law and Justice party was eventually ousted from power in 2022, Poland remains the worst EU country in which to be gay or trans, while anti-LGBTQ+ policies continue apace in Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

[ladyluscinia]

World leaders get mentioned

Trump immediately jumps on fascist "strongman" Orban liking him and forgets that he's running against Harris instead of Biden for the rest of the question

Ok watching the debate.

Trump rambles an answer that refuses to answer if he would veto a national abortion ban, somehow pivots to student loans multiple times, insists the entire country supported overturning Roe v Wade, and chooses to throw JD Vance under the bus by suggesting he doesn't talk policy with his vice presidential choice. Normal behavior.

[dontforgetukraine]

The Western arrogance, stubbornness and sheer apathy following the brutal Russian attack on a children's hospital in Kiev is unbearable. This week NATO turns 75 years old, and from today the heads of state and government are meeting in Washington DC. The moral bankruptcy of the military alliance has probably never been closer than it is now. When the White House was asked on Monday whether Ukraine could now use Western weapons to attack all military bases in Russia in light of Russian missiles fired at a children's hospital, the president's spokesman replied that Joe Biden's position had not changed. This means that Western weapons may only be used near the Russian-Ukrainian border. From all other locations, the Russian army can fire as many rockets at children as it wants without running any real risk of the military bases being destroyed. From Germany, there was a short tweet on X from Chancellor Olaf Scholz about the attack in Kyiv: "Germany stands unwaveringly by the side of the Ukrainian people. Especially in these difficult hours." It couldn't be more of a cliché. And in the end it means: no new weapons, no Taurus, nothing. If even the attack on children with cancer doesn't change anything, what should Putin be afraid of? The West keeps warning of escalation, while Putin continues to escalate. Our weakness is his strength. The German debate alone is so far removed from reality that it is often hard to believe. At the end of May, SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert said of the use of Western weapons in Russia: “Just imagine if such a weapon accidentally hit a civilian infrastructure (in Russia)!” Yes, just imagine, Mr Kühnert! In Ukraine you don't have to imagine it, it happens every day. These and other statements should be shown to the Ukrainian mothers whose children were bombed in Kiev. Because it is this "strategy" of Western politicians that is partly responsible for Russia being able to bomb Ukrainian children's hospitals in the first place. To this day, Ukraine is denied the means to defend itself against Russian war crimes. The supposed fear that the West would cross Putin's "red lines" or "escalate" led to this war - and to this day leads to Russia being able to commit war crimes against the Ukrainian people with almost complete impunity. Meanwhile, Western politicians are resorting to diversionary tactics and are all attacking Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban has never made a secret of his position, so his attempt to talk to Putin is not surprising. All politicians who are upset about Orban's trip to Moscow and the talks with Putin must face an uncomfortable question: Are they prepared to supply enough weapons to enable Ukraine not only to defend itself but also to recapture territory? There are only two ways to end this war: either Putin will be pushed back with Western help so that Ukraine will win, or there will be talks that will ultimately be conducted according to Vladimir Putin's rules.

—Paul Ronzheimer (@/Ronzheimer)

[orbanisztan]

Sound on!

[zambomarti]

Our athlete, Alice Bellandi, not only wins the gold against the athlete of the terrorist state Israel but then goes to kiss her girlfriend an international direct, in front of our Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, who is far right, against the LGBT+ community and allied with Orban.

ART

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Orbán's Visit to Georgia Sparks Controversy Amid Election Irregularities

Orbán’s Controversial Visit to Georgia Amidst Election Backlash Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian Prime Minister, has lauded the recent parliamentary elections in Georgia as “free and democratic,” even as he faces significant criticism from various European Union (EU) nations regarding his trip to Tbilisi. A coalition of 13 countries, including prominent members like Germany and France, condemned…

[pajjorimre]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/tens-thousands-rally-against-hungarys-orban-after-sex-abuse-pardon-scandal-2024-02-16/

Épp ideje, hogy ne Orbán legyen az összes hír főszereplője.

[eretzyisrael]

by David P. Goldman

Jewish life flourishes in Hungary, with its Jewish population of 100,000 and large Israeli community. It's safer to walk around Budapest with a kippa than New York City, let alone Paris or Berlin.

Orban defied his European Union peers and refused to permit mass immigration from the Middle East in 2016—the source of appalling violence in other European countries.

Orban banned anti-Israel demonstrations after the October 7 massacre, the only European country to do so. Hungary denounced the ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu. And it maintains diplomatic representation in Jerusalem through a trade office, again uniquely among European nations.

French President Emmanuel Macron demanded an arms embargo against Israel, and Spain's Prime Minister Sanchez wants to cancel the European Union's free trade agreement with Jerusalem. Orban defends Israel. Liberals cite Orban's fiery polemics against one particular Jew—not Jews—as putative evidence of his antisemitism. That is George Soros, the world's wealthiest Hungarian and an ultra-liberal political meddler.

Soros has spent an estimated $400 million to push Hungarian politics to the Left; given the relative sizes of the Hungarian and U.S. economies, that's the equivalent of $60 billion in political spending in America. Soros draws the wrath of Hungarian conservatives not because he is a Jew, but because his Open Society Foundation is a gigantic presence in Hungarian politics. To call this antisemitism is perverse.

Viktor Orban's support for Israel stems from deep conviction. The State of Israel is a beacon of hope for European conservatives. The Old World is dying of childlessness, and Israel's unique fertility rate of three children per woman is an inspiration to Europeans who want to preserve their culture.

I have met Viktor Orban and many of his senior aides, and can say without a hint of doubt that their support for Israel and for Jewish life in Hungary stems from genuine admiration for Jewish accomplishment as well as Christian religious conviction.