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Orban Viktor!!!
Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party scolds the European Parliament for the “humiliation” being forced upon Greece and the warnings this holds for other debtor Eurozone nations like Portugal and Spain.
“Greece is a nation-state, with a history, with a soul. They are suffering. They have a youth employment of 50%! Of course, because they’re in the Euro! These people are being driven into humiliation and desperation. Desperate people do desperate things.”
Thoughts?
I think this is a good sign that provides perspective to broaden the debate about the changes in Hungary. Both the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the main opposition party leader in Poland, Jarosław Kaczyński, have written to the EU President Jose Baroso that the criticism of Hungary’s recent economic and financial laws have been too harsh, while cautioning that the recent talk of Hungary rolling back democracy is exaggerated.
Before any Hungarian critics get upset with me, let me add that I too am concerned about the recent moves Orban’s government has made regarding freedom of speech and media censorship. I too would be mad.
Yet I think it’s important to note that the Orban government was elected democratically with a clear mandate from the people in 2010. Orban was not a newcomer to Hungarian politics, this is not like it was going to be a mystery what his attitudes and ideas were going to be. Therefore, he has more legitimacy to impose these measures than the awful farce that was forced on the Greek and Italian people this past Autumn.
Specifically, both Papandreou and Berlosconi, two incompetent yet democratically elected leaders, dared to use seek referendum and electoral support for the austerity “aid” packages that were being floated around at the time, so that the Greek and Italian people might show actual support for austerity plans that would further crush their standard of living and increase unemployment. Instead, the elites of the EU Troika helped get both leaders ousted and replaced by unelected puppets.
If the Hungarian people are truly outraged about these new laws, they have an opportunity to vote against Orban and his Fidesz party in the next election. Maybe they will, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Regardless, the show of support for Hungary by Polish leaders helps show how complicated the situation is, which is not what the Western media and the EU would like us to see. They wish for us to see things only in black and white, that all of Orban’s policies are wrong and only EU dictates are right.
In my opinion, obviously as just an outsider, I think I’d largely agree with most of Orban’s economic and financial reforms, such as changing the mortgage exchange rates and reasserting control over the Hungarian Central bank, while I would hope that the new media laws are reversed. But that is for the Hungarian people, not Brussels, to decide.
Thoughts?
We have an atomic bomb that we can use in the face of the Germans and the French: this atomic bomb is simply that we won’t pay.
Debt is our only weapon and we must use it to impose better conditions, because recession itself is what is stopping us complying with the (EU-IMF Troika) accord. We should make the legs of the German bankers tremble.
By Pedro Nuno Santos, vice-president of the Socialist Party in the Portuguese Parliament, UK TelegraphEverything you need to know in under 3 minutes about the political dynamic of the Euro, Greece, Italy, Germany, and the erosion of democracy in Europe. UK Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage speaks the truth.
Mr. Van Rumpuy, you, an unelected man, went to Italy and said
“this was not the time for elections”…What in God’s name gives you the right to say that to the Italian people?
