Instead of defunding Hungary, let's defund Brussels

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a thorn in the side of the European Union. It is easy to see why. Orban unashamedly defends his country, its national interests and its cultural identity.

He opposes mass migration. He resists the woke left-wing ideologies that have taken over the West. He does what Mark Rutte and the other European leaders should be doing: defy transnationalism, cultural and moral relativism, globalism – the ideals of the European Commission and its unelected leader Ursula von der Leyen.

Unelected Ursula cannot stand Orban with his enormous electoral mandate. Last April, when Orban and his Fidesz party won his country’s parliamentary elections for the 4^th consecutive time with an even larger majority than ever before, Von der Leyen’s Commission reacted not by congratulating Orban and respecting the democratic vote of the Hungarians, but by initiating penalty procedures against Budapest under the EU’s Rule of Law Mechanism.

According to the Eurocrats, Hungary’s constitutional and electoral systems are flawed. They say that there “exists a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the EU values.” Hence, in order to punish Hungary, the EU is going to rob the country of subsidies it is entitled to under the EU rules.

This is a blatant violation of the EU’s own rule of law. The EU treaties clearly state that unanimity is needed to impose a financial penalty on a member state. However, in order to force reluctant member states – such as Hungary and Poland – to toe the line, the EU adopted the so-called “Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation,” in December 2020, which allows the European Commission to bypass the unanimity procedure whenever so-called violations of the rule of law by member states “affect or seriously risk affecting the sound financial management of the Union budget or the protection of the financial interests of the Union in a sufficiently direct way.”

The EU’s approach of values, fundamental rights and the rule of law, is purely ideological. Vague and questionable notions are used to impose the imperialist concepts of the corrupt hypocrites in Brussels on Hungary, while they themselves are the largest threat to the rule of law in Europe.

The health of the Europeans has been undermined by poisonous jabs bought in a shady, corrupt deal from Big Pharma by EU chief Von der Leyen herself.

While Hungary has the lowest energy prices in Europe, elsewhere in Europe millions will go cold and hungry this winter because rising prices have made energy and food prices unaffordable.

European farmers have been expropriated for the benefit of the EU’s green fanaticism and climate activism.

European welfare is crushed by hyper-inflation fuelled by the ECB’s money printing.

Under the pretext of fighting fake news, the EU is restricting the fundamental right to freedom of speech. Citizens are deceived by lies about non-existent diseases, non-existent problems, non-existent enemies. Even peace itself is endangered by the EU’s continuous fomenting of war against Russia.

If they truly cared about their citizens, the European elites should be imitating Hungary instead of having the impudence to punish it. The Dutch people should realize that, instead of allowing the EU to defund Hungary, it is time for us to defund the EU: Nexit!