EU Leaders Aghast as Hungary’s Orban Given Sweeping ‘Emergency Powers’ to Fight Coronavirus
31st March 2020
t predictably evoked immediate backlash from leaders across Europe and the West, given he’s already long been under scrutiny for allegedly weakening Hungary’s judicial and parliamentary systems in what critics have long complained is a bid for greater ‘authoritarian’ control. From the start, it should be remembered, he was loathed by EU technocrats for rejecting the so-called open door response to migrants and refugees in 2015.
Their basic objection is that he won’t buy into the ‘invade the world, invite the world’ outlook of the EU bureaucracy. (Kinda like Trump.)
March 31st, 2020 at 11:55
They’re probably just pissed that he got the “emergency powers” and they didn’t. He says he’ll hand said powers back when the emergency is over, and I hope he will. The EU leaders would never even consider it.