On 1 May 2004, the citizens of 🇨🇾 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇭🇺 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇲🇹 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 🇸🇮 became citizens of the EU.
Since then, we have witnessed growth and prosperity. Real wages have doubled from 2004 to 2023 in these ten countries, while poverty levels have halved.
Our Union has benefitted from more innovations. The free movement of goods, services, capital and people, have brought greater opportunities for people and businesses.
As with #Russia, #Israel, and other places, not the country or even its peoples are the problem but the often illegally elected regimes or their actions contrary to international law and in violation of human rights.
That said, I do hope that the "leaders" of the aforementioned countries, including #Hungary's, will be ousted sooner rather than later.
#Slovakia’s nationalist prime minister, Robert #Fico, is moving ahead with a law targeting non-governmental organisations that critics say is inspired by #Hungary’s crackdown on civil rights groups.
Fico’s coalition, on Tuesday passed the draft law. Under the bill, NGOs that receive more than €5,000 a year in foreign funding must be registered as “organisations with foreign support” and list their donors.
'This year's European and local elections may be the toughest in #Orban 's 14-year rule with Hungary's economy in recession, the abuse scandal striking his family-values platform at its core, and a political newcomer threatening to upend the status quo. Even so, Orban's #Fidesz remains the most popular party in Hungary.'
"What is now clearly a pro-Russia #Republican caucus has consolidated inside #Congress.
The lesson is clear: Anyone who seeks to manipulate the foreign policy of the #UnitedStates, whether the tin-pot autocrat in #Hungary or the Communist Party of #China, now knows that a carefully designed #propaganda campaign, when targeted at the right people, can succeed well beyond what anyone once thought possible."
Jokes aside, when a #USA#Congress critter known for having Russian sympathies, and not known for her vast wisdom and intellect, suddenly advocated for #Transcarpathia (I'd like to see you point that out on a map, Empty Green), which #Russia has promised to #Hungary from #Ukraine, are we allowed to begin to talk about active, real collusion and communication, rather than merely happenstance complementary agendas, between #MAGA and Russia?
Hungarian authorities said on Friday they had launched an investigation into opposition figure Peter #Magyar on suspicions over foreign funding for his campaigns, which have been highly critical of Viktor #Orban's government.
Magyar launched his movement by publicly accusing the government of widespread corruption and running a centralized propaganda machine. Orban aides have rejected his accusations.
Hungarian PM believes West is “one step away from sending troops to Ukraine” (www.pravda.com.ua)
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, says the West is one step away from deploying troops in Ukraine, but Budapest does not want a war.