Dozens of members of the European Parliament are fuming over Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s recent push for a peace deal in Ukraine, which he began when Hungary took over the rotating EU presidency.
Sixty-three members of the 705-seat European Parliament sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other top EU leaders calling for Hungary to be punished for Orban’s push for peace, which has involved trips to Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing.
“[Orban] undertook several diplomatic visits, notably to visit Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China, during which he intentionally misrepresented his empowerment,” the MEPs wrote, according to POLITICO.
“This requires real actions, such as suspending Hungary’s voting rights in the Council, since practice has shown that mere verbal condemnations of this situation have no effect,” the MEPs added.
EU officials have insisted that Orban doesn’t represent the European bloc despite him taking over the presidency on July 1. During his recent trip, the Hungarian leader stressed the need for dialogue with Russia, which has been a consistent position of his, putting him at odds with much of the EU and NATO.
“We cannot achieve peace without dialogue and diplomatic channels,” Orban said at the Kremlin. “I have experienced that the positions are far from each other, but in terms of the restoration of dialogue, the first important step was taken today.”
There are signs that Orban’s efforts and the possibility of a future Trump administration wanting to wind down US involvement in the war are having an impact. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week that Russia should attend the next “peace summit” he organizes. Russia had not been invited to participate in the previous one.
Orban had better watch out. Whatever happens on November 5, Joe Burisma still has plenty of time between now and January 20 to launch a color revolution in Hungary.
Seen any evidence of this?
I mean even people who do not believe that color revolutions are indigenous movements have to acknowledge that they were all preceded by what (appeared) as fairly massive public protests in the capitals of the country in question.
Yes, massive unrest … but unlike in Ukraine or Georgia or etc. such "unrest" in the US or, say, France does not seem to lead to calls by the "international community" for the central govt to quit and be replaced by the protesters' preferences somehow.
So no such unrest in Hungary hence no threat of a color revolution.
And as to the rest of your reply, have you seen any such massive unrest in the US?
We have seen something almost like this kind of protests in France, but then Macron did call for a new election when they suffered defeat in the EU parliament elections – thus deflating the basis for the protests (well at least for now) – and the international community did not call for the government to quit!
During the Maidan protests in late 2013 and early 2014, which were primarily driven by dissatisfaction with then-President Viktor Yanukovych’s government and his decision to suspend the signing of an association agreement with the European Union, several Western countries and organizations expressed support for the protesters and their demands for democratic reforms and closer ties with Europe.
So not the same thing.
As there were no international community that had any interest in the agenda of the French protesters.
I’m not familiar with any protests in the US rising to something remotely like even the French let alone the Maidan ones.
In the case of Ukraine, according to Victoria Nuland the Maidan protests were preceded by $5 billion of encouragement from the U.S. and its NGOs
No that support was given to Ukraine over several years prior to the Maidan even erupting.
True. Let’s say it was given over a period of 20 years. That would be $250,000,000 per year for 20 years. That’s real movement-building money.
That kind of money would buy a significant amount of political influence here, !et alone in a country with an economy the size of Ukraine’s
That could be true – only the money were not given to a anti Yanukovych movement and he was not in power for a lot of that time – hence the notion that this was for funding the Maidan is plainly absurd.
The EU does not want peace with Russia, does not want peace in the ME. They want NATO to become their Army, to go anywhere in the world, to destroy countries like China, NK, anyone who is their competition. The EU wants to control everything, just like Hitler wanted.
How shocking! The great trumpets of democracy want to keep a member state from voting. Real class acts.
“We cannot achieve peace without dialogue and diplomatic channels,” Orban said at the Kremlin. “I have experienced that the positions are far from each other, but in terms of the restoration of dialogue, the first important step was taken today.”
“[Orban] undertook several diplomatic visits, notably to visit Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China, during which he intentionally misrepresented his empowerment,” the MEPs wrote, according to POLITICO. “This requires real actions, such as suspending Hungary’s voting rights in the Council, since practice has shown that mere verbal condemnations of this situation have no effect,” the MEPs added.
I mean, seriously?
Well, "peace" in slavery now, don't you realize?
Orban is the only grown up in the room. All of these fiendishly bought and paid for MEP's are nothing more than enemies to the entire EU civilian populations. The EU is a dying lapdog for US hegemony period.
No Leader of Any Oblast In The Union of European Socialist Republics (UESR) May Deviate From UESR Diktats.
So sayeth under 10% of the European parliament.