• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I heard there might be enough support for oppo parties in Poland to unseat PiS, would that be enough to bring the hammer down on Hungary?

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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        If it’s Slovakia I’d actually doubt it

        Orban and Fidesz denies the legitimacy of Slovakia because Slovakia is composed of land that used to be Kingdom of Hungary turf.

        I can’t imagine Slovakian nationalists, even pro Russian ones, being all that friendly towards someone directly denying their right to exist.

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          They don’t really deny Slovakia’s legitimacy, at least not officially because it was part of the deal to join nato to give up on those claims.

          From Orbán most of these are a performance towards his different voter blocks. Even in a single talk he gives he swings between far left and far right rhetoric depending whom he wants to pander to.

          Maybe he said something that I don’t know about, but recently he even started to distance himself from the Hungarian minority parties in Slovakia in favor of Fico. It’s all about staying in power and finding the right allies for it.

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          I can’t imagine Slovakian nationalists, even pro Russian ones, being all that friendly towards someone directly denying their right to exist.

          You said it yourself: they’re pro-russia.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said a Monday decision by the Ukrainian National Agency of Corruption Prevention to remove OTP Bank from the list was a “step in the right direction,” but he implied that Hungary required further assurances before it would change its approach to Ukraine in any international settings.

    The Hungarian Foreign Ministry has invited Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency to come to Budapest “as soon as possible” to discuss the listing of OTP “so that we can negotiate an agreement that guarantees that no such decision will be taken (again) in the future,” Szijjarto said.

    Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency temporarily removed the bank from the list last week in hopes that Budapest would lift its veto of the funding.

    The Hungarian government, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has sparred with Kyiv over a number of issues since Russia’s full-scale invasion began.

    Last week, Orbán cast doubt on the prospect of the EU beginning negotiations any time soon for Ukraine to join the bloc, saying it was unrealistic to launch the accession process with a country at war.

    Szijjarto said Wednesday that Hungary also expects Ukraine to remove OTP’s Russian branch and four of its Hungarian executives from a list of entities submitted for sanctions.


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