The Daily Populous Wednesday October 9th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by Right-Influence617

In the past, the Parliament has criticized von der Leyen for being too soft when addressing rule of law and human rights issues in Hungary.

Her rebuttal of Orbán’s policies comes weeks before the team of 26 European commissioners will go before Parliament for their sign-off — and she needs MEPs’ support for her second term. In her most recent address, in unusually strong words, von der Leyen called out the Hungarian prime minister for cozying up to Putin.

At the start of Hungary’s six months at the helm of the presidency of the Council of the EU, Orbán went on self-declared “peace missions” to Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing and Washington, and claimed, without authorization, to be representing the EU.

After comments from the leaders of the Parliament’s political groups, a shocked Orbán was given a chance to respond, and said he “was surprised by what the president said.”

“I deliberately did not raise our differences, because as the Council presidency we are working on Europe’s behalf. It’s not right to talk about these differences of opinion when here we are talking about the presidency,” he said.

Péter Magyar, a former Fidesz insider who is now Orbán’s main opponent, also faced off with the prime minister during the debate. Magyar’s party, Tisza, is doing well in the polls.

O5KAR on October 9th, 2024 at 12:42 UTC »

Another 'fiery speech' will change nothing.

HighDefinist on October 9th, 2024 at 12:04 UTC »

Well, that's certainly yet another step in the right direction. But, overall I would prefer it if the EU would ramp up its pressure against Hungary/Orban more quickly...

Few-Hair-5382 on October 9th, 2024 at 11:46 UTC »

> “I want to ask them,” she said while looking directly at Orbán: “Would they ever blame the Hungarians for the Soviet invasion of 1956?"

This is what gets me every time about the Hungarians. How the hell can they not remember what Russia did to their country in 1956? Poland remembers. Even when they had a right-populist government not too different from Orban's they continued to support Ukraine.