It’s time to solve EU’s orban problem

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The EU has a Victor Orban problem for a long time. He has been proved to be the managers for many years. Now life is dangerous.

US President Donald Trump’s strategic purpose of normalizing relations with Russia and its strategic purpose and up to the Indo-Pacific Europe -, of course, from Ukraine and perhaps NATO. This will fix the EU. This can be something that the US leadership can accept; It can even be its purpose.

High-level EU officials look at the Ukrainian war in theinese. Now Russian president Vladimir Putin has no reason to believe that Trump is now active, there is a success in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron and Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the Britain, may work in the US ambitions in the ambitions of Umid Putin. The truth is that the United States is impossible to deploy and ensure that Europeans have a continuous peace-loving peace and ensure. The more, the last, the result is a war. In this situation, Europe will not have a choice but to support and arm Ukraine.

The ability to do this is directly broken by Orban, which is directly with the return of Trump’s return. The Prime Minister of Hungary retains Trump and Putin in Lockstep in our winners of both of them.

EU leaders gathered in March 6, Orbán, Summit related to Ukraine. The remaining 26 leaders forced the EU union to adopt a separate statement.

There are many concrete paths that Orban can shake European support for Kyiv. Economic sanctions against the EU need to be renewed every six months by the next decision in July. To do this, a veto handover is required. Europe should decide to seize Russia’s frozen assets in the 200B of Russia’s frozen assets and Orban’s frozen assets. High European officials have prepared a number of options for walking its blocking tactics, but they will last for an engineer and implementation.

Orban also enjoys a great goal in the process of Ukraine’s membership in the EU. Every step other than the initial selection process that compares Ukrainian internal laws to the EU General publicfaces unanimously. However, there is no need to surrender to the EU blackmail. There are many goals that can pull. Given the new geopolitical reality, it would be good to do it.

The easiest goal to draw is cash. The EU has allocated 44.4 billion euros for Hungary in the budget of 2021-27, 21.4 billion euros should be released. This money is the needs of orban.

The Hungarian economy was almost stagnant in 2024. In February, 5.7 percent annually, 7.1 percent of the voting sensitive food price hit 5.7 percent.

In January last year, the meteoric rise of an unknown person, the Tisza Party took second place in the European Parliamentary elections, which is about 30 percent of the country’s votes in June, was a higher security of Orban. The worst for him, the former Fidsz continued to support the incid.

Despished supporting, the main nutrients for orban, mothers and pensioners announced a staged tax reduction for mothers and VATs. However, these measures will guarantee about 4.6 percent of GDP this year in this event, 3.7 percent targeting the Hungarian market confidence in violating the market trust.

Therefore, the EU funds are criticized, if the Orban is to increase the confidence of the investor’s country’s economy. The European Commission has a goal and should use it.

European officials consider it to increase close to 30 billion euros in united union funds for European protection. Orban wants to ensure that they will be subject to the same harsh conditions, which prevents unity and defective unions and defective solidarity funds and defective grants to the Hungary so far. However, as conventional, 150 billion Eurovers on the defense may be unavailable for the orban, as it is paid from the EU budget or warranted.

The EU has more Draconian weapons. 22 Member States and European Parliament find Hungary in the serious violation of the rule of law, then, after a number of steps among the remaining 26 member states, the Hungary could stop voting rights according to the skilled majority.

The EU is now facing the moment of Darwinian. Will either adapt or die. This should face orban to protect the state of Ukraine and Russian “on the front line”. And how quickly it is better.