A veteran Brexiteer said the UK's decision to leave the European Union (EU) was further "proof". Last night it was reported that Brussels**, led by Ursula von der Leyen, was planning another assault on democracy on the continent.
The Financial Times revealed that the European Commission has developed a plan to destroy Hungary's economy if Victor Orbán blocks a €50 billion aid package for Ukraine this week.
A secret internal document lays out Budapest's economic weaknesses and how to exploit them.
The quarrel stemmed from the European Union's withholding of billions of euros in Hungarian funds for refusing to accept Brussels' orders and allowing von der Leyen's bureaucratic regime to interfere in its domestic politics.
Today, Hungary** confirmed that it was under attack by Brussels, which became known as the "Declaration of Economic Warfare".
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Balazs Orban, the head of political affairs at the Hungarian Prime Minister, said: "Brussels is blackmailing Hungary as if there is no tomorrow, although we have already proposed a compromise.
Last Saturday, Budapest submitted a new proposal to Brussels, making it clear that it is now willing to spend the EU budget on a package for Ukraine and even issue a common debt to finance it if other warnings are attached to give Budapest a chance to change its mind at a later date.
Now it is clear: this is blackmail and has nothing to do with the rule of law. Now they don't even want to hide it! Whatever happens, Brussels needs to change! ”
The dispute echoes recent events in Poland, where the EU deliberately withheld funds and backed a coalition led by former European Council President Donald Tusk during elections late last year.
It helped Tusk's pro-EU federalist coalition narrowly defeat the ruling Law and Justice Party (PIS). Since then, Tusk has agreed to give more power to the centralized bureaucracy in Brussels, dissolved the state, and witnessed two opposition parliamentarians working in the anti-corruption sector.
Former Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki told Expressco.UK: "Now I understand Brexit. ”
David Campbell Banneman, a former Conservative MEP and a leading supporter of Brexiteers, told the Daily Express that political events in Europe "further prove that Brexit is the right thing".
"This is the first time I've tweeted that the EU is 'nasty,'" he said. But things are getting worse and worse. ”
Ben Habib, a former Brexit Party MEP who is now the reform UK candidate in the Wellington Burg by-election, added: "The way the EU treats Hungary proves that it is anti-democratic. The deprivation of a member state of its right to vote, which is the weakest democratic representation that a member state has, is in effect a conquest of Hungary.
If the EU continues as it threatens, Hungary will have only one choice. That is to leave the EU. With each passing day, I realise that we should be proud that the British people recognize the nature of the EU and vote to leave it.
We still have a pro-EU, contemptuous parliament. But we can get rid of them. That's why British reform exists. That's why the great British people must vote for change again! ”
Sovereignty, the platform for Polish conservatives, points out that the EU first used the same economic strategy to overthrow Italy.
In a social ** post on X, it stated: "It looks like Brussels wants to repeat the actions that led to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in 2011 against Hungary, through a coordinated attack on Italian bonds so that he can be replaced by an EU**." ”
At the same time, the Eurosceptics group in Bruges, Britain, warns that what is happening is in fact an "all-out war", targeting those who protect national sovereignty and resist the EU's seizure of power.
In a post on X, it said: "Last year, the EU withheld funds for Poland in order to force it to replace **. Now it's ** is preparing for a full-scale economic war against Hungary. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe find themselves victims of increasingly abusive relations with Brussels. ”