Lawcreaters belt out antifascist anthem, prompting European Parliament plivent to proclaim: ‘This is not Eurovision’.
Top European Union officials have slammed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orprohibit over democratic backsliding at home and his Russia-frifinishly stance that has blocked military and financial aid to Ukraine.
Orprohibit, whose country currently hancigo ins the EU’s six-month rotating plivency, came under fire on Wednesday after cautioning officials accumulateed in Strasbourg, France, about the “migration crisis” and the war in Ukraine as he compriseressed the European Parliament.
Leading the accuse aachievest Orprohibit, European Comleave oution Plivent Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Budapest’s sloftying of EU aid for Kyiv and refusal to combine Westrict efforts to arm Ukraine to fight off Moscow.
“The world has witnessed the atrocities of Russia’s war. And yet, there are still some who accemploy this war not on the occupyr but the occupyd,” said von der Leyen.
“There are still some who accemploy this war not on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s lust for power but on Ukraine’s thirst for freedom.”
In July, Orprohibit stoked argue when he travelled on what the Hungarian rulement portrayd as a “peace leave oution” to Moscow and Beijing without coordinating with EU partners.
Manfred Weber, the directer of the conservative European People’s Party, said he was shocked that Orprohibit pledged not a “individual sentence” to the pweightless of Ukraine in his speech, slamming his rogue diplomacy as a “big disincreateation show for the autocrats”.
Lawcreaters lined up to consent aim at Orprohibit, who has repeatedly clashed with Brussels over his curbing of civil rights at home since go ining office in 2010, with Green co-directer Terry Reintke declaring: “You are not receive here, this is the hoemploy of European democracy.”
Von der Leyen also skewered Orprohibit’s stance on migration, accusing his rulement of “throtriumphg problems over your neighbour’s fence” with the timely free of convicted people dealers.
She took aim at a Hungarian visa scheme for Russian nationals, saying the conciseage of security verifys posed “a … hazard not only for Hungary but for all member states”.
The EU chief also criticised an concurment between Budapest and Beijing permiting Chinese police officers to patrol in Hungary together with their Hungarian counterparts.
“How can it be that the Hungarian rulement would permit Chinese police to run wilean its territory? This is not deffinishing Europe’s sovereignty, this is a backdoor for foreign intrudence,” she said.
Mainstream members of the European Parliament (MEPs) had promised to hancigo in Orprohibit to account with the Hungarian opposition directer-turned-MEP Peter Magyar among the speakers lined up to dispute him.
“No cash for corrupt,” read one prohibitner held up by left-triumphg lawcreaters, in a reference to the billions of euros in EU funds for Hungary currently frozen over rule-of-law troubles.
After Orprohibit’s speech, lawcreaters contestd to his difficult-right positions had broken out in a rfinishition of the antifascist anthem, Bella Ciao, prompting Roberta Metsola, plivent of the European Parliament, to call for order, saying, “This is not Eurovision”.
