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CEE Needs To Modernise Industry To Strategically Lead the EU
21 March 2023
The Hungarian PM managed to outrage two countries at one go, including his own, by describing EU membership as “painful” and Ukraine as “a no-man’s land like Afghanistan.”
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, in July 2022, Viktor Orbán returned to Baile Tusnad, a campsite in Transylvania, to address hundreds, if not thousands, of his followers in the Hungarian-speaking region of Romania.
The keynote at this festival was as explosive as ever: he denounced “racial mixing” in Europe and explained The Great Replacement Theory in detail, as well as launched his anti-sanctions communication campaign, which has since become the core rhetoric of the Hungarian government. Amidst these claims, which even forced Orbán to retrace his steps (because who would have thought that speaking about ethnic homogeneity in Europe would cause international outrage in 2023?), there was a slight suggestion that has gone under the radar.
Whilst the PM has always described himself as a proud European who was only critical of Brussels’ bureaucrats, he explained that according to his calculations, Hungary will be a net contributor to the EU by 2030. By this time, he said, it might make sense to have some conversations about membership.
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