Hungary will not stand by the reopening of the Lisbon Treaty’s ratification process, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai said after meeting his counterparts from the Visegrad Four countries (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep) and Slovenia in Brussels on Thursday.
Speaking before the EU summit to begin later in the day, Bajnai said that “efforts by the country that was last to join the union to win an opt-out of the EU’s Charter of Fundemental Rights in the last stage of the Lisbon Treaty’s ratification process holds dangers for Europe.”
The Czech Republic has demanded an opt-out from the Charter, fearing that ethnic Germans expelled from the country under the Benes decrees after the WWII will seek compensation.
Bajnai said he expected tough talks at the summit on this subject.
Asked whether Hungary would veto the Czech opt-out, Bajnai said that Hungary will argue against it, but “it is not wise to arrive at negotiations with the disposition of blackmail”. In Hungary, Austria and elsewhere, raising the issue of the Benes-decrees in connection with the Lisbon Treaty has been a concern. Under the Benes decrees, about 80,000 ethnic Hungarians were also expelled from the territory of what was then Czechoslovakia.
Bajnai said it was wrong to bring up the disputes of a painful past in connection with the documents meant to shape the European Union’s future.
spoken like a traitor agian…..
Bajnai should not speak for Hungary. In any country with real laws, he would be in prison as any other common criminal. He was put in power by a party with less than 10% support.
He was put in power by a party with less than 10% support.
So it was like USA during Bush era. No big deal.
He was put in power by a party with less than 10% support.
Tom at October 31, 2009 11:19 AM
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I did not know that it has been a General Election since 2006?
In 2006 the numbers were a bit different.
Or should the different polls decide who can chose the PM now?
I thought those polling-companies were run by ‘jews’ anyway, those days when they are not ‘communists’?
Bajnai is “long gone” after the Christmas holiday.
Who gives a monkey’s fuck what he thinks or says
anyway?!
Hungary needs a strong leader and a government that
can get Hungary back on its feet.
The MSZP excelled at borrowing money and then made it disappear faster than a rat up a drain-pipe.
Trouble is the loans have to be repaid….ermmmm
By whom, and when? Not this side of the 21st century
in a struggling bankrupt ex soviet-bloc backwater where corruption creeps through every strand of public and private life.
Hungary needs a strong leader and a government that
can get Hungary back on its feet.
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Trouble is the loans have to be repaid
Cosmos at October 31, 2009 9:45 PM
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It is hard to get more loans if you do not even try to pay back the old ones.
With everything Fidesz has promised they need to borrow a lot of money, especially as the ‘jewish capital’ is going to be hunted down.
In one sense Gyurcsany was strong, in refusing to step down, so maybe “a strong leader” is not always the ideal to strive for?
Cosmos,
I agree with most of what you said except for “The MSZP excelled at borrowing money and then made it disappear faster than a rat up a drain-pipe.”
“A strong leader and a government” that you advocate can find most of the money that the corrupt MSZP and SZDSZ stole and recover most of it. The lenders who gave money to these corrupt anti-Hungarian Communist leaders should be told to get their money back from the Communists they colluded with, not the eventual rightful leaders of Hungary.
You are much to kind to Bajnai. He is a madoff type common criminal who ruined the lives of hundreds of hard working Hungarian farmers, driving several of them to suicide. A full investigation should uncover all of his dishonest dealings and those just like him.
My Hungarian friends tell me that Orban and his Fidesz crew also filled theirt own pockets while they had the power of government – all of them left as very rich people…
So what’s the difference between the Hungarian parties ?
“A strong leader and a government” that you advocate can find most of the money that the corrupt MSZP and SZDSZ stole and recover most of it. The lenders who gave money to these corrupt anti-Hungarian Communist leaders should be told to get their money back from the Communists they colluded with, not the eventual rightful leaders of Hungary.
Tom at November 1, 2009 8:03 AM
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Ahh the Fidesz sponsored myth that there is vast money out there just to be recovered.
Not only you think that the current Government is a bunch of crooks (which I will not argue), but you actually insult their intelligence, by thinking they put the money in their mattresses or in any sense close to Hungary?
Just think how impossible it has been to get back the stolen money from different dictatorships around the world the last 50 years.
So why should the ‘MSZP-crooks’ be so much more stupid than your average 3rd world dictator?
And why should any “Hungarian Strong Leader” have any bigger influence on those places where you normally hide the money, than other Governments in the world?
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And you also live in the illusion that Hungary never ever will need to borrow any money on the International Money Market, be it IMF or not handing out the loans.
As usual you forgot a small detail – Hungary after 1989 has have had internationally recognized leadership, that have been elected in internationally accepted open and free elections.
It will not work to claim that old Gov’t were not legal.