BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers on Thursday declared that Hungary has become “a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy” under the leadership of its nationalist government, and that its undermining of the bloc’s democratic values had taken Hungary out of the community of democracies.
What happened, did they discover oil in Hungary? Are they doing a socialism?
So slightly related but RFE's hungarian branch posted an article today about a meeting Orbán and the government had last week with members of the national bougies and influencers close to the party which has the next interesting passage (deepl translation ahead, sorry):
"By 2030, the V4 will become net contributors, and Orbán said that at that time we must reflect on if EU membership makes sense, and what membership gives us under these circumstances, and if we cannot find a positive answer, we must draw conclusions. The Prime Minister also said that Europe was not prepared for the rise of new players in global politics (primarily China), and that he had already seen this in 2010, that he had seen how effective Chinese state capitalism was, and that he would therefore like to develop a similar economic model in Hungary, which is the basis of his so-called unorthodox economic policy."
Just to add to this, his branch of state capitalism is destined to fail, because he considers things like unemployment pay and things like that "handouts" and does nothing to raise the standards of living, which causes people to run west. In the meantime he expects people to start families but not doing anything to meaningfully help people with that.
So slightly related but RFE's hungarian branch posted an article today about a meeting Orbán and the government had last week with members of the national bougies and influencers close to the party which has the next interesting passage (deepl translation ahead, sorry):
"By 2030, the V4 will become net contributors, and Orbán said that at that time we must reflect on if EU membership makes sense, and what membership gives us under these circumstances, and if we cannot find a positive answer, we must draw conclusions. The Prime Minister also said that Europe was not prepared for the rise of new players in global politics (primarily China), and that he had already seen this in 2010, that he had seen how effective Chinese state capitalism was, and that he would therefore like to develop a similar economic model in Hungary, which is the basis of his so-called unorthodox economic policy."
Just to add to this, his branch of state capitalism is destined to fail, because he considers things like unemployment pay and things like that "handouts" and does nothing to raise the standards of living, which causes people to run west. In the meantime he expects people to start families but not doing anything to meaningfully help people with that.
So basically he wants to turn Hungary into the average westerner's understanding of China.
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