EU’s Threat to Hungary After Resounding Election Victory, Claims Bloc Will Prevent ‘Dictatorships’
by Virginia Hale Comparing the newly re-elected government of Hungary to Cold War Communist states, EU Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans has made a thinly veiled threat towards Victor Orban’s new government, warning Europe must not allow nations in the bloc to slide into “dictatorship”. “I have seen Europe in its different forms,” said Timmermans, speaking in Warsaw on Monday where he recalled having visited Poland and Hungary when the nations were “still [under Communist] dictatorship”. “You are of an age that you have never seen that,” he told a journalist, declaring: “And we Europeans have a strong duty to...
by Virginia Hale Comparing the newly re-elected government of Hungary to Cold War Communist states, EU Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans has made a thinly veiled threat towards Victor Orban’s new government, warning Europe must not allow nations in the...
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