ER Editor: We’ve generally stopped publishing stories that use ‘may’ or ‘might’, but this one we feel is worthy of being put out. This is the first time we’ve heard such a statement made, coming at a time when the EU is so close to collapse anyway, collapse for economic reasons and for clear levels of corruption on a pretty massive scale. Hungary has been treated abominably by the EU according to what we’ve published. Is this a hint of what’s coming? We’re not sure about the political stripe of the guy making this loaded remark, Andras Simor, the former governor of the Hungarian National Bank. Hungary leaving the EU would be called Huxit.
Hungary is not part of the eurozone and continues to use its own currency, the forint. (However, see this report on the Hungarian Central Bank favouring entry to the eurozone because the policy of keeping the forint low against the euro isn’t working. Hmm. Hungarian central bank: Adoption of the euro now outweighs benefits of national forint currency)
This is Orban speaking at the youth festival this past weekend (MSM warning) –
‘LGBT+ offensive’: Viktor Orban criticises EU at Transylvania festival
Annual speech at the Bálványos Free Summer University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő. Europe has created its own political class, which is not accountable, and has no democratic or Christian convictions. Because of this, we have no choice. We have to fight! We don’t want… pic.twitter.com/VLPvwZ9POz
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) July 22, 2023
If want to know more than what you get from the mainstream media: my speech at the 32nd Bálványos summer free university and student camp is now available in English: https://t.co/igswdkqvVW pic.twitter.com/WUvbCGtSYR
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) July 23, 2023
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Hungary may leave EU – former banking chief
Budapest and Brussels have clashed on migration, morality, and the conflict in Ukraine
RT
Leaving the European Union may soon become “a real alternative” for Hungary, the former governor of the Hungarian National Bank claimed in a television interview on Sunday.
Speaking on Hungary’s ATV network, Andras Simor said that while a Brexit-style departure from the bloc is an unlikely scenario, “it is a possible one.”
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“It’s probability,” he explained. “If it was 10% last year, by now it has risen to 20%, to 30%.”
Citing the country’s rising inflation rate and the EU’s withholding of $30 billion in funding to Budapest, Simor stated that he is “afraid that Hungary’s government will maneuver the country into a situation where an exit from the European Union becomes a real alternative.”
Although Hungary is a net beneficiary of EU aid, much of this assistance has remained frozen for several years, with officials in Brussels citing Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s hardline anti-immigration policies and alleged crackdown on judicial independence and media freedoms as reasons for the holdup. (ER: the usual ‘reasons’)
While Orban’s government successfully gained access to some of this money by lifting a veto on EU economic aid for Ukraine last year, the Hungarian PM has continued his criticism of the bloc’s support for Kiev. Orban has repeatedly called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and accused “pro-war Brussels bureaucrats” of stoking conflict with Russia “at the expense of European interests.”
Orban’s disagreements with the EU go beyond the realm of geopolitics. Speaking at a youth event in Romania on Saturday, he declared that the bloc “rejects Christian heritage, carries out the replacement of its population via migration… and conducts an LGBTQ offensive” against conservative societies.
Despite his regular broadsides against Brussels, Orban has repeatedly dismissed the idea of leaving the EU. Polls taken since the 2016 Brexit referendum have consistently found high public support for staying in the bloc, although a recent Eurobarometer survey recorded a 12-point drop in those with a “positive image” of the EU, with only 39% now viewing the union favorably.
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