The government is fulfilling more requirements to get blocked EU billions.
Budapest. Politically, Hungary is a divided country. The relationship between the Magyars and the EU is correspondingly ambivalent. While the pro-European opposition camp sees the Union as a community of liberal democracies governed by the rule of law, for the government camp “Brussels” is a symbol of the paternalism of Viktor Orbán’s government, which clings to the idea of a Christian “illiberal” nation state.
Orbán never tires of invoking the Magyars’ thirst for freedom, who have been ruled by others for centuries throughout their history, from the Ottomans to Habsburg Austria to the Soviet Union. The Hungarian prime minister put it this way: “We Hungarians are a freedom-loving people. We don’t like it at all when outsiders tell us how we have to live.” Orbán and his government take every demand made by Brussels from Budapest in the same way: as interference in the country’s internal affairs.