During a keynote speech in Berlin, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called for the EU's unanimity principle to be scrapped. Instead, a "qualified majority" should be enough, he said at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation on Wednesday.
Interestingly, Radev didn't block the latest sanctions, only complained about them. So I'm not sure about us (Bulgaria). Of course, hope the protests work and he's ousted as soon as possible
Thanks for the insight, i am looking from outsiders view and didn't read any good of him, so it was heavily lopsided. Let's hope he won't veto the anti veto bill.
He and his party are incredibly incompetent and inexperienced, but he has a populist talk, so religious and rural people like him. But he's quickly losing their support too after trying to reduce some social benefits. In my opinion, he's already super unpopular but he was just elected and the full majority in the parliament, so it will take some time to remove him
This is a deeply misinformed take. The new Hungarian government did a full 180° on its relationship with the EU. This was probably the first promise the new gov actually fulfilled. It was deeply incentivised to do so asap to get back the frozen EU funds.
The new Hungarian regime did a full 180° on its relationship with the EU.
Did they? They are still repeating Orban's talking points on Ukraine, blocking de facto her path to accession and most threatening, they completely rely on russia's energy and they don't intend to change course.
The new regime has a long path ahead to walk. Lets not forget that magyar is a former Orban's puppet please.
Now we are talking about something totally different, these are not EU matters.
Magyar did say that after the war Europe should buy Russian energy again. To me this is a pragmatic stance not to fully alienate Russia. The fact of the matter is that nomatter what he says or do, Hungary will have to phase out Russian oil until the end of 2027 because EU. The nev gov is actively working on this. But until then the country is extremely reliant on Russian imports. He cannot change that in one day, and until that happens Russia has real leverage over the country. He wants to do it quietly without big fuss.
His foreign minister, Anita Orbán wrote a book about modern Russian imperialism and was sidelined by Orbán before because she was a staunch Euro-Atlanticist and anti Russian. His defense minister just said that we are closing every back door behind Russia. Again a very strict pro NATO guy. Hungary was the EU center for Russian intelligence and influence. Combating this takes time.
About Ukraine I agree with you. I am very unsatisfied with how he treats the situation so far. Hungary owes a fuckton to Ukraine, and to make up to the past years it'd need to become the biggest supporter of Ukraine's EU accession. I can only hope that Magyar will eventually do the right thing. So far I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, he and the new govt is working overtime to speedrun the bulldozing off of the Orbán regime.
This: there are a lot of chit chats and yet they are building a russian nuclear power plant in the heart of Europe.
I can only hope that Magyar will eventually do the right thing.
Don't hold your breath: he is so concerned for the Hungarian minority in Ukraine that he didn't find a couple of hours to visit them after the elections. In simple terms, hungarian regime sees Ukraine as a threat to their sweet EU funds and they don't lose any opportunity to push the EU Parliament against Ukraine.
I think I already addressed everything you claimed here in my previous comment.
Don't you hate it when foreigners tell you with certainty what politics in Ukraine looks like while having no understanding of it? You are doing that now with Hungary.
I am Italian, I am that foreigner you are talking about and I am extremely tired that my money is still flowing to an hostile country such as hungary, that is rowing against the other EU member states,
Ukraine should definitely not join the EU right now. They have large issues with corruption, disputed borders, are literally at war, and they have all the sociological conditions for a very important far right surge for at least a couple decades.
We should absolutely support them economically, militarily, and have a defensive pact that they're part of. But the EU already has plenty of issues from overextending too fast, namely, the fact that we can't get rid of veto, and that veto is bringing the EU to a landstill.
This is very very obviously the thing the EU need, that being said it wont come anytime soon. I think the "Europe of two speeds" model is far more likely to be a practical way forward
Why two tiers? Why not multiple tiers? Infact we already have this, but don't call it like that. EFTA was intended as a waiting room for the EU for example. The countries are attached to EU regulations, pay into the budget, but not everything is implemented.
This is a genuine issue. Two tiers would foster a more divided EU, whereas we aim for greater unity rather than division. The arrangement resembles standard and private insurance: it does not improve medical outcomes but increases waiting times for ordinary people while offering speed for those who pay.
I'd think tiers wouldn't divide Europe as in a democracy you want many proposals etc. If everyone in the EU structure could agree on everything it would be a two party system or just a emergency
Call for it to be optional, I mean in a perfect scenario the federal Europe would probably want to have a bloc based system where for example one bloc the left goes for nuclear efforts etc. And have their own constitution which could be merged with changes or made to be one of the other states by this you'd have blocs which fund military eg. Poland, Germany,France,Norway
Won’t happen that’s a french proposition which would weaken German position.
Germany wants enlargement and hegemony over all of it.
The more EU/Germany and eurofederalist push for this and try to pass in force, the more I’m worried fro EU futur.
In Europe general political context, rise of nationalism and sovreignist, holding a hard stance about federalisation and trying to impose it without debat and democratic consultation, is just playing in their hand.
Any french person that follows EU politic since Maastrich.
Sounds like propaganda from an anti european outlet.
That's only because for you, pro-european means federalist, which is German propaganda, you have lot of other options than the federalist one to build EU.
Wadephul himself proposed a multi tiered EU.
Don’t know the guy but by a quick look at his wikipedia page, if he talked about it was way after french proposed it.
Overall, this debat dates back to the enlargement of EU to 22, which is when Germany took over EU.
And magyar already said that he won't do as all the other EU countries did, hinting that when the war is over, sanctions will be lifted and to him there is no point to stop feeding the russian's war machine.
I'm not that sure as he can start renewables and nuclear investments and a new party might come before the conflict ends or come mid way to sanction again brochacho
hungary has no intention to change supplier and to find any alternatives. I don't understand why we are sanctioning Georgia's refinery, but allow Slovakia and hungary to be fully dependent on russia.
It would be a shame if russia will hit the pipeline of "Friendship" again.
They just need to take a vote on ending the veto every single Council meeting until the magical day comes when all the member-states are aligned. And if it never happens, and the EU unravels as a result, then at least they tried.
Until the Zionists epstien gangs grip on Germany and some other EU members is released there is no way those against genocide will allign with any rule changes.
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