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Orban Compares EU Membership to Being in the Warsaw Pact
If you don’t speak Hungarian, let me teach you a handy phrase: takarodj!
Not that there is anything wrong with it — if that is what you like to do — but checking out the rocks of other men is not my idea of a fun afternoon, morning, night, evening, etc. And yet, in the past month or so, I have written at least three articles about people’s balls.
I don’t want to be writing about Hungary. I don’t, but Hungary is writing about itself, and I am just conveying these sentiments to you. The preamble to this story has already been written in these two articles: Hungary Parroting Kremlin Rhetoric Challenges Ukraine’s Right to Exist, and Hungary Should Be Ousted from the EU and NATO.
Let’s now get down to our heaping plate of Hungarian goulash with homemade noodles and discuss what has my head spinning today.
Speaking to a select group of guests in the city of Veszprem, Orbán accused the EU of seeking to strip Hungary of its identity by imposing a model of liberal democracy that he said Hungarians reject. Brussels, the de facto capital of the EU, employs methods against Hungary that hearken back to the days of Soviet domination by Moscow, he said.
