A new day, a new theory regarding why the government of Viktor Orbán is delaying the ratification of Sweden’s request to join NATO. Perhaps the most explicit to date has come from the Prime Minister’s political director, Balázs Orbán in a Facebook post on Thursday.
In his social media post the Fidesz politician writes that “the Swedish prime minister asks what the Hungarian MPs’ problem is. We help you understand with some examples:
3 March 2021.
Ulf Kristersson (then leader of the Moderate Party, now Prime Minister):
For the EU, a big part of the job is still to break Hungary’s development, put pressure on the Hungarian government and support the growing opposition.”
30 June 2021.
Jessika Roswall (then EU spokeswoman for the Moderate Party, now minister for EU affairs):
“What is needed now is a clear action by the EU to stop the new conditionality mechanism from making payments to Hungary.”
10 May 2022.
Johan Pehrson (then leader of the Liberal Party, now Minister for Employment and Integration):
“Hungary’s xenophobic and nationalist government continues to violate the rule of law and renounces support for Ukraine.”
As NATO, apart from being a military defense alliance, is also an alliance of values, one can hardly question the rationale behind one of its members objecting to granting membership to another that openly calls for breaking the first’s development. Läs artikel