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  • Hungary won’t ratify NATO bid until Swedish leader visits: ATV
  • US senator urges penalties against ‘least reliable’ NATO ally

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban escalated a standoff with Western allies over Sweden’s NATO accession after a senior US lawmaker called for potential sanctions against the lone holdout.

Orban’s lawmakers won’t allow a parliamentary vote on ratifying Sweden’s bid until the Nordic country’s leader visits Budapest to meet with his Hungarian counterpart, ATV television reported, citing the ruling Fidesz party. They’ll also boycott a special session the opposition called for Monday on the accession, ATV said on its website.

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Patience over Orban’s obstructionism is wearing thin both inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. On Thursday, Orban finally dropped his opposition to a €50 billion ($54.4 billion) EU aid package for Ukraine after becoming the only of the bloc’s 27 leaders to veto it in December.

Hungary is the “least reliable” NATO member,” US Senator Ben Cardin, the Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement on Thursday. He urged the Biden administration to consider imposing sanctions on Hungary for corruption and also to weigh the possibility of scrapping its participation in a US visa-waiver program.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 26 points 9 months ago

I think what everyone is starting to understand is that Orban is going to hold out for a kickback every single time anyone else needs literally anything done quickly, in any context. They’re proving themselves to be a consistently awful international partner in any regard (unless, of course, you’re Russia).

I thought there was a glimmer of hope considering he finally acquiesced to funding relief and aid for Ukraine, but apparently not. Orban has been fucking around entirely too much, and he really needs to find out.

[-] illi@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

I thought there was a glimmer of hope considering he finally acquiesced to funding relief and aid for Ukraine, but apparently not

I applaud your optimism. It's clear his hnd was forced on this one.

Fwiw, it does actually look like they got him to change his position with some good old focused diplomacy. But I guess Putin’s still got his balls in a vice or something.

[-] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

That had to be some next level diplomacy then. Good for them, I stand corrected

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Kick Hungary out of the EU?

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Orban won't last forever. Just look at Poland to see how fast things can change. Improvement is not guaranteed, but things can quickly change.

[-] rodolfo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

not saying anything, but Orban ain't immortal... sooner or later he's going to leave the govt. europe should cut money just at the perfect time, so that people would blame following shitty scenario on this white, old style, European man.

oh, in Italy he's highly regarded inside lega nord (Extreme far right, xenophobic, nationalist party now part of the government) and widely estimated, although not always explicitly, by fratelli d'Italia (far right, xenophobic, nationalist party now part of the government)

[-] 50gp@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

nothing the far right want more than to enrich themselves with public and eu money like orban

[-] rodolfo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

that's why europe should wait for the right moment to cut the sweet €€

[-] louisinidus@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Fuck orban jesus christ. Most insufferable leader

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

The Trump-asshat of the EU.

[-] Vub@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Doing their best of making the entire world despise and laugh at Hungary.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago
[-] guacupado@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Sounds like someone trying to get an off-the-record deal.

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