Orban supports EU-entry for Serbia and some other Balkan countries, no doubt seeing the potential of greater cooperation and alignment between more socially conservative peoples as a bulwark against the incessant progressivism of the West.
But the EU is unleashing one of its dogs on Poland, which shares similar views to Hungary.
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(Translation) Hungary's proposals for the future of the EU are: In Brussels they are building such a superpower for which no one has given authorization. We say "no" to the European empire. Integration is a means, not an end in itself. Basic EU treaties should erase commitment to 'closer union among nations in Europe' Decisions should be made by elected leaders, not international NGOs! We say no to outsourcing the rule of law. The strength of European integration is ensured by common economic successes. If we can not be more successful together than individually, then that is the end of the European Union. The next decade will be a period of dangerous challenges: we are threatened by mass migration and pandemics. We must protect the people of Europe. We must restore European democracy. The European Parliament has proved to be a dead end: it represents only its own ideological and institutional interests. The roles of national parliaments need to be increased.
(Translation) Hungary's proposals for the future of the EU are: In Brussels they are building such a superpower for which no one has given authorization. We say "no" to the European empire. Integration is a means, not an end in itself. Basic EU treaties should erase commitment to 'closer union among nations in Europe' Decisions should be made by elected leaders, not international NGOs! We say no to outsourcing the rule of law. The strength of European integration is ensured by common economic successes. If we can not be more successful together than individually, then that is the end of the European Union. The next decade will be a period of dangerous challenges: we are threatened by mass migration and pandemics. We must protect the people of Europe. We must restore European democracy. The European Parliament has proved to be a dead end: it represents only its own ideological and institutional interests. The roles of national parliaments need to be increased.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ry-2021-07-03/
WARSAW, July 3 (Reuters) - Former European Council President Donald Tusk returned to the fore of Polish politics on Saturday, becoming leader of the main opposition party in a move that revives a duel with his longstanding foe Jaroslaw Kaczynski. For many in the liberal Civic Platform (PO) party that Tusk helped to found, the stakes are nothing less than Poland's future in the European Union. Elections scheduled for 2023 will determine if the governing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by Kaczynski, will continue its disputes with Brussels over issues including judicial reforms that the EU says undermine the independence of judges and LGBT rights. "Civic Platform is indispensable, it is needed as a force, not as a memory, to win the fight for the future against PiS," Tusk told a PO congress in Warsaw. "There is no chance of victory without Civic Platform, and our history tells us that." The rivalry between Tusk and Kaczynski is both deeply personal and emblematic of the division between the pro-European economic and social liberalism of PO, and the conservative social values and left-leaning economics of PiS, which to a large degree defines the Polish political landscape. Speaking on Saturday at a PiS congress in Warsaw - where he was re-elected leader for what he said would be the last time - Kaczynski contrasted what he said were improvements in living standards under PiS to the elitism he said preceded their rule. "This group (the elite) was to dominate ... (and) all the rest were supposed to agree to a modest, poor and sometimes miserable life," he said. "We have restored ... the dignity of people, the dignity of work by raising wages, a very significant increase in pensions, raising the minimum wage."
WARSAW, July 3 (Reuters) - Former European Council President Donald Tusk returned to the fore of Polish politics on Saturday, becoming leader of the main opposition party in a move that revives a duel with his longstanding foe Jaroslaw Kaczynski. For many in the liberal Civic Platform (PO) party that Tusk helped to found, the stakes are nothing less than Poland's future in the European Union. Elections scheduled for 2023 will determine if the governing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by Kaczynski, will continue its disputes with Brussels over issues including judicial reforms that the EU says undermine the independence of judges and LGBT rights. "Civic Platform is indispensable, it is needed as a force, not as a memory, to win the fight for the future against PiS," Tusk told a PO congress in Warsaw. "There is no chance of victory without Civic Platform, and our history tells us that." The rivalry between Tusk and Kaczynski is both deeply personal and emblematic of the division between the pro-European economic and social liberalism of PO, and the conservative social values and left-leaning economics of PiS, which to a large degree defines the Polish political landscape. Speaking on Saturday at a PiS congress in Warsaw - where he was re-elected leader for what he said would be the last time - Kaczynski contrasted what he said were improvements in living standards under PiS to the elitism he said preceded their rule. "This group (the elite) was to dominate ... (and) all the rest were supposed to agree to a modest, poor and sometimes miserable life," he said. "We have restored ... the dignity of people, the dignity of work by raising wages, a very significant increase in pensions, raising the minimum wage."
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