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Last Monday, the day of the announcement of the Hungarian and Polish political veto, the German magazine Die Zeit conducted an interview at the Carmelite Monastery. With Viktor Orbán. The interview was published today, and a Portfolio review reveals that Viktor Orbán had sent a letter just two hours earlier. Angela Merkel German Chancellor declaring that he would veto. In the days before, they also had a video conference on the EU budget and the rule of law, where Orbán told Merkel that
what you ask of me, Angela, is suicide.
However, the Prime Minister did not say which of the Chancellor’s responses he responded to.
Orbán also said in the interview that he does not understand why member states are deviating from the summer agreement. According to the Prime Minister, under pressure from the European Parliament, with the active support of the German Presidency, the EU community deviated from the agreement reached at the EU marathon summit in July. They argue that the Article 7 procedure cannot create a parallel mechanism or, if so, modify the Treaty first, which requires unanimity, which is not the case and that EU leaders have not been consulted.
According to a portfolio.hu article, Orbán also said in the interview that the rule of law framework should only be understood in the dimension related to the protection of the EU budget, and that the leaders later authorized a rule of law mechanism in a broad sense.
Orbán also said that he only wants to comply with the EU treaty, but the Germans want to impose it on something that was not agreed at the EU summer summit. Put it that way
the Hungarian image is that we are standing and the German train is running towards us and wants to get us off the track.
Orbán cut down on the suggestion that the Hungarians and Poles had practically dropped political atomic bombs with the budget veto, saying that “if the Germans had done it, it would have been considered an atomic bomb, the Hungarian move would only be a hand grenade.”
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