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Viktor Orbán's anti-woke resistance has made him the 'splinter under the fingernail' of the EU (apnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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Hungary’s parliament will convene an emergency session on Monday to do something its western partners have waited for, often impatiently, for more than a year: to hold a vote, finally, on approving Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance.

But Hungary’s governing party, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has signaled that it will boycott the session, blocking the chance for a vote and further delaying a decision on Stockholm’s bid. It’s the kind of obstruction of key policy objectives for which Orbán has become notorious within the European Union.

“We are the sand in the machinery, the stick between the spokes, the splinter under the fingernail,” Orbán said in a speech to tens of thousands of supporters in 2021.

That “stick between the spokes” tactic, and Orbán’s role as Europe’s perennial spoiler, has brought the EU to breaking point time and again as he has blocked crucial decisions to leverage concessions from the bloc, forcing its leaders to scramble to find workarounds.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Viktor Orbán is an excellent American politician, he's insulated himself from internal attacks and is using his platform to just be a contrarian asshat. Hungary, internally, suffers from high unemployment and weak social safety nets.

These sorts of politicians destroy democracy, we always must remain vigilant of them.

[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Characterizing him as American is telling on yourself tbh

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How does this have anything to do with the US? Just USA=bad, right? Orbán is holding up USA policy objectives and you say he'd make a good American politician. You divide more than you unite.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Viktor Orbán's hollow hate filled politics are basically taken straight out of the GOP playbook.

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

No, Viktor Orbán and Hungarian conservatives and the American Republican party are both symptoms of the same global conservative problem. I'm not sure if you prefer blaming the USA, or if you just need somebody to be behind it all, but everyone has the potential to be evil like they are. All of us. We all have to choose to be better, no matter where we're from. That includes not generalizing about people based on their nation of origin, like saying if it's evil it must be because of the American thingy.