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Tensions flared again when Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa sided with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Although Ljubljana is voting for the recovery fund and budget for the next seven years, Jansa’s coalition partners have already roared over his statements, condemning them. Jansa’s government has been regularly attacked by the local opposition funding his party from Hungary through shady companies, by local Hungarian businesses buying from the media, and by the fact that Budapest was eventually taken over by the Slovenian fan.
As is well known, Hungary and Poland have expressed their unwillingness to accept the next EU budget and the agreement on the resources of the Recovery Fund, as their payment would be subject to the rule of law of the European Parliament, the European Commission. and the leaders of most member states. The threat of vetoes in Budapest and Warsaw was justified by both countries on the grounds that the regulatory mechanism in favor of democracy would be a serious violation of state sovereignty.
The European Council will debate the proposal on Thursday at 6pm, where Hungary will be able to discuss various strategies: the strategies described above by Napi.hu include those that would give rise to the mechanism, but also those that would lead to its adoption, but which may be communicated as a success. it would be a compromise. However, it seems that even the so far peaceful German leadership of Angela Merkel is not open to this, nor would the southern states actually allow the Hungarians and Poles to block payments.
And Jansa’s letter arrived
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who sided with the Hungarian-Polish tandem, joined this tense situation on Thursday with an open letter. In a letter to the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Charles Michel, President of the European Council, among others, Jansa wrote: “The rule of law must be respected in the EU, but also pointed out that the” mechanisms of discrediting “that are not based on independent judgment, but are politically motivated and cannot be called rule of law procedures.” He also wrote that the debate was not in anyone’s interest, because another country could leave the union after Brexit, and understands the concerns of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moraviecki because “we have lived an important part of our lives. in a totalitarian system. “
Although Jansa’s letter seemed to reflect the position of the Slovenian government, it could in fact be his private opinion, as all other members of the coalition government, apart from the Slovenian Democratic Party he controlled, were distancing themselves from what he had to say. As early as Wednesday, Azonnali.hu summed up that partners in line had indicated that they disagreed with Jansa, as did Defense Minister Matej Tonin, chairman of the New Slovenian Christian Democratic People’s Party (NSi), who said without detours: Janez Jansa’s opinion was private, by no means. This is the position of the Slovenian government. Tomaz Gantar, the Minister of Health delegated by the Pensioners’ Party (DeSUS), said that the booth “certainly does not serve the interests of Slovenia”, while the Liberal Modern Center stated in a statement that it would reject the content of the letter. of the prime minister.
The opposition condemned Jansa’s statement from the start, and the LMS, SD, Levica and SAB already demanded on Thursday that the foreign and EU parliamentary committees of the foreign parliament meet urgently. They want the committees to discuss the position of the prime minister, which goes against the strategic directions of Slovenian foreign policy.
Although there is an extraordinary legal order in the country due to the epidemic, neither DeSUS nor NSI rejected the idea. According to the opposition, Jansa is tarnishing Slovenia’s reputation on the international stage and destroying its international relations. According to them, what happens is “shameful and unnecessary”. They are also concerned about the Visegrad Group’s “troubled countries pact” approach, writes 24ur.com in a summary.
The other parties in the ruling coalition have been asked to work together to “reject” the arbitrariness of the prime minister, as they have so far only turned away from the prime minister in words but not in deeds. The coalition parties have not yet signed the opposition demands.
“Janez Jansa kidnapped the country,” said SD’s Matjaz Nemec. “Our intention is to take the first step towards the unity of Slovenian politics in response to the personal frustrations of a single leader,” Nemec added.
“Thus we end up in the company of infamous countries, which could even cause an economic crisis blocking funds,” wrote in its resolution the SAB party, which had already called Jansa “Orbán’s servant” on Wednesday.
There is a lot of misfortune, always with Hungarian thread
This year was a year of government crisis for Slovenians: during the first wave, the Jansa government started with the fact that they had to buy ventilators due to the coronavirus epidemic. But it was later revealed that the special prosecutor’s office also launched an investigation due to the selection of Geneplanet doo. The company had not previously dealt with acquiring such equipment, but experts found the requested machines unsuitable for treating covid patients and overpriced, and public procurement was deemed politically driven because authorities lobbied the government to hire the company.
The case was resigned by the Minister of the Interior and the Chief of Police, and a house search was carried out on the head of the Ministry of Economy and questioned by local authorities. Because of this, there was a more serious debate in the coalition.
In the end, the ordered machines were shipped to Hungary almost twice as expensive as agreed by the Slovenian state. The Hungarian contract was signed when the local scandal broke out.
There has also been a conflict over the purchase of Nova24TV by businessmen close to the Hungarian government, previously Árpád Habony’s unofficial consulting company, which has become a channel sympathetic to the populist SDS. Then, in the last snap elections, Hungarian SMEs announced in various newspapers and television stations in northern Macedonia and Slovenia that they may be linked to parties allied with the Budapest government. Therefore, the Slovenian opponents also asked the European Commission to take action against Hungary for political interference.
But I also painted it at one of the local SDS offices, I swear, “Orban Ltd.” (Slovenian: Orban doo.), Because Hungarian businessmen concluded various other agreements in the country, for example, with the support of the Hungarian government, they spent 2 billion guilders (6.1 million euros) on the NAFTA soccer academy from 1903 in Slovenia.
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