Orban is probably the only decently patriotic leader of a European country right now.
Eleni Kounalakis, US ambassador here for the first three years of Orbán’s regime, writes in a new memoir that her staff discovered these conclusions were “very well grounded in fact,” noting that a single company controlled by a close ally and former college roommate of Orbán’s, Közgép, had won $1.3 billion in government contracts in the first two years of his administration. “International companies located in Hungary that ordinarily would have bid for the projects told us it was no longer worth the time and money required to submit proposals, because Közgép was sure to win,” she recalled.
I'm not Hungarian, so no. From the outside he looks like an honorable and measured leader.
You should pick up a newspaper then.. it has been covered by some at least.. the decay of democracy and liberty in Hungary and the rise of neo-fascist borderline Nazi right wingers.
You should pick up a newspaper then.. it has been covered by some at least.. the decay of democracy and liberty in Hungary and the rise of neo-fascist borderline Nazi right wingers.
I'm beginning to wonder if some people think the only solution in Europe is to turn to fascist parties and tactics.
Why is securing one's border, protecting one's culture, and fighting for one's sovereignty immoral? Why should Hungary have their culture and national security eroded?
Who said it was immoral? It's how you do it that counts.
How is what Orban doing unacceptable? Why do you believe you should make decisions for Hungary and not the elected leader of that nation?
I'll give you that, the highest number of asylum applications and granted applications are actually in Hungary.
Hungary are not exactly excelling financially, and they're quite a close-knit nation. To expect them to absorb a ridiculous number of completely foreign "refugees" and prop them up is unreasonable and immoral. Hungarian sovereignty and concerns for their well-being should, unequivocally, trump your intent to virtue-signal and indicate your bleeding-heart-love to help a situation that, frankly, shouldn't concern Europe at all.
"Why do you believe you should make decisions for Hungary and not the elected leader of that nation?"
I don't. That's exactly why I support Orban. Why don't you heed that advice instead of condemning him as an 'ebil fashist nazi!!!!!'
It appears that Orban is the one defending democracy in Europe, while Merkel is destroying it.
People who support Orban are the same people who supported Hitler, George Bush, Mussolini, Nixon, Kissinger and Vladimir V. Putin and are the exact opposite of humane Progressiveness.
I'll give you that, the highest number of asylum applications and granted applications are actually in Hungary.
A broad brush is often a good tool. It does quick work on a barn door. Alas most of the important information is lost in your miniature.
A man that removes the supreme court because it ruled against him is some how defending democracy? A man that has rigged the election system so that fraud will explode is defending democracy? A man that has clamped down on media critical of him and his government is suddenly defending democracy? A man connected to billions of dollars worth of corruption is now defending democracy? Seriously?
Would be a bit careful of that statistic. It does not define who those accepted asylum applications are. In Hungarys case we know that they refuse to accept Muslims, so who are they?
I was responding to the general claim Orban's iron fist approach is protecting Hungary's borders. Our American friend is probably unknowing of the range of asylum seekers who enter Hungary when he claims Orban is "protecting" Hungary etc.
I wasn't claiming the seekers are muslims either; anyone over here in Europe who can do basic research would, like you, know that a range of peoples are seeking asylum - from Africans, muslims from the ME and other Eastern Europeans from Ukraine, Russia etc.
Sounds like our ideal man. All you have to remember is that when Spanish democracy was under threat in the 1930's the democracies around it turned away and watched it go establishment/fascist rather than defend a liberal democracy.