hotair.com By Beege Welborn
When I covered the Hungarian elections on Monday, with the dethroning of Viktor Orbán after 16 years in office and the ascendance of Péter Magyar, I had to admit to being disheartened by descriptions of the younger man as wanting closer ties with the European Union.
Would that, I wondered, mean a complete renunciation of all the bulwarks against EU encroachment on so many fronts that had kept Hungary recognizably Hungarian? The staunch stand against unfettered immigration was the first and foremost thing that sprang to mind, a stand for which Hungary had paid dearly in withheld EU funding and penalties. The bureaucratic corruption and cozying up to Putin that Magyar swore to root out were long overdue and could only stand to benefit the Hungarian people in the long run. But the economic stagnation they are suffering at the moment is another critical issue that will have to be addressed, and would those withheld EU funds be too much to resist, despite Magyar’s conservative promises?
The prime minister-elect has begun making the parliamentary rounds required in anticipation of forming his government, and with a healthy majority for his party, it won’t be a fight over coalition-building…
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