The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán has threatened to take the country out of the EU, the first time that the Hungarian president has openly spoken of this possibility, after denouncing a “jihad“declared by Brussels in the name of the rule of law.
For Orbán, the EU has unleashed “a holy war, a jihad” under the motto of the rule of law, he stated this Saturday during an act with supporters in Budapest.
Thus, he has asked Brussels for “tolerance” with Hungary because otherwise it will be impossible to continue along a common path. “We want to keep the EU together and that is why we have repeatedly made offers of tolerance. We do not expect them to adopt Hungary’s migration, family, national or foreign policy, but do not expect us to adopt their policies either,” he argued. “The EU must move forward, not backward”, has underlined.
The European Court of Justice (TEU) will decide next Wednesday on the appeals presented by Hungary and Poland against the rule of law protection mechanism approved by Brussels in December 2020.
EU bodies and human rights organizations accuse Orbán of eroding the rule of law and dismantling democracy since he came to power in 2010. In response, Orbán assured this Saturday that “for them, the rule of law means that they want to bring us to our knees and co-invest us in something that looks like them.”
Orbán has argued that Hungary does not want to be the same as Western Europe. “There is no other solution than tolerance. It is the only way for us to find a common path.”