https://ft.com/content/bca8-09d9-470b-adf5-82cc9f0
EU officials have drawn up a secret plan to purposely try to wreck Hungary's economy if Orbán continues to block billions more in aid to Ukraine.
They're prepared to make EU citizens suffer greatly in order to fuel more war.
Hungary has vowed to defy EU pressure to approve a four-year, €50bn aid package to Ukraine, condemning as “blackmail” a proposal to undermine its economy if it fails to back down.
Brussels has laid out ways to sabotage Hungary’s economy unless it agrees to drop its veto against the Ukraine funding plan at a special summit this week, in a confidential document seen by the Financial Times.
Hungary’s currency fell 1 per cent to Ft390 per euro and the benchmark 10-year bond yield rose 0.09 percentage points to 6.35 per cent, the highest level since December, on Monday.
“Hungary does not give in to blackmail,” Hungary’s EU minister János Bóka wrote on X on Sunday night. “The document, drafted by Brussels bureaucrats, only confirms what the Hungarian Government has been saying for a long time: access to EU funds is used for political blackmailing.”
@CakeScarlettGreen4mos4MO
In realityland language:
EU officials, after privately warning Orban against his continued efforts to aide Putin's empire project, have now, through a deliberate leak, made clear to the people of Hungary that this behavior comes with a cost.
@UrchinClaireDemocrat4mos4MO
Remember folks, Trump & GOP love Dictator Orban, and put him on a pedestal. You vote Trump/GOP into office, America will quickly transform into an Authoritarian Dictatorship, as did Hungary, until the Political Right there convinced voters Orban offered a new type.
@ElectionIcecreamRepublican4mos4MO
Cope. We won’t let Ukrainians be slaughtered.
@RightistMaxLibertarian4mos4MO
Zelensky knew he couldn't beat Russia unless "supporters" like you got off social media and went to help Ukraine fight. He begged. You refused, now talk like you're a warrior.
@ElectionIcecreamRepublican4mos4MO
why don’t you go fight for Russia??
@RightistMaxLibertarian4mos4MO
Because I'm not a supporter of its invasion of Ukraine, nor am I advocating that my government fund Russia's military or its war effort.
I don't see the Russian/Ukraine war as relevant to US interests, so it'd be nonsensical for me to fight on either side of it.
