Author:

László Arató (EUrologus)

For the Netherlands, a compromise on the rule of law is the minimum, we cannot afford that, said the country’s Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Dutch House of Representatives. However, his opponent, far-right Geert Wilders, says that Viktor Orbán is a great hero who has vetoed the EU budget.

According to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the current presidency, the European Parliament and the European Commission have something to do with the announced vetoes of Hungary and Poland, they have to solve this problem. Otherwise, he could take the matter before the Heads of State and Government, but Rutte has stated that he does not want to reopen the debate on the budget agreement or on the rule of law, or back down at all.

Rutte also said that he had run out of patience with both countries. He believes that the Hungarian and Polish governments should accept the situation, otherwise they should be left out of the seven-year budget and recovery fund. “For the time being, however, it will be an intergovernmental union,” Rutte said.

The Dutch prime minister, who was mentioned by the Hungarian prime minister only as a Dutchman in July, recalled that he had spent three hours seeking a compromise with the Hungarian and Polish prime ministers to include the term gender equality in a text on Africa.

Rutte received wide support in the House, his strongest critic being Viktor Orbán’s good friend, the leader of the Freedom Party, Geert Wilders. According to the parliamentary act, the far-right politician said, among other things: “What great news. Mr Orbán vetoed the incredibly crazy plan to give Brussels 100,000 million euros in the budget to be paid to southern Europe. What great hero is! ” I would very much like to ask the Prime Minister to support Mr Orbán’s veto, so that we can spend that € 100 billion on healthcare, pensions and our economy in the Netherlands instead of sending it to Brussels, Italy and France. “

Rutte was not indebted for the answer: “It turned out that I had to follow Mr. Orbán’s example, so I had to restrict gay rights in the Netherlands, I had to restrict freedom of the press in the Netherlands, I had to restrict the right of small parties to participate in elections. to man! “Wilders was not convinced, however,” although we would have a prime minister here in the Netherlands like Mr. Orbán, “he said, then asked his own prime minister again to be “pumpkin” and veto the budget.

Another member of the coalition government, the leader of the liberal D66 party, Rob Jetten, also criticized the Hungarian prime minister: “An autocratic leader like Orban still wants to destroy the rule of law, so the entire Union could soon run out of a budget. It is an autocratic attempt to maintain his power,” he said.



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