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The front lines in the dispute over the budget and the rule of law mechanism have hardened. Displaced conflicts break out in Warsaw, Budapest and Brussels.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in a meeting with his counterpart Viktor Orban (left) in September.
There are strong accusations currently going back and forth between Brussels, Warsaw and Budapest. There has been talk of blackmail and treason ever since Central and Eastern Europeans blocked the EU budget for the next seven years and the Crown’s aid with their vetoes. This is a lot of money: 1.8 trillion euros. The prime ministers of Poland and Hungary also use problematic historical analogies: the rule of law has become a means to round up weak members of the European Union, Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday night. “We Poles know very well the use of such propaganda batons of communism.” Viktor Orban even believes that the EU could become a “second Soviet Union”.
