The
European Commission is going to start “legal procedures” against
Hungary for criminalizing support for migrants within the nation’s
borders according to Reuters.
This presents an interesting case of both free speech and national
sovereignty. Hungary is violating the concept of free speech and freedom
of association by forcing individuals to not support migrants, while
the European Commission is also against acting directly against these
“Western values” by trying to force Hungarians to do the opposite and
deliberately using force to change a nation’s opinion which brings the
role of the nation-state in the EU back into question.
Hungary,
despite being deep in the Postmodern Empire itself has many growing
critical ideological differences with the bloc of nations that cannot be
reconciled. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has many times called for the
EU to return to its Christian roots in
both rhetoric, and far more importantly, policy. And unlike many
supposed “Euro-skeptics” Orban’s government has actually built a wall
and routed the flow of migrants away from Hungary. This is action and
not just populist words to pacify dissent. The European Commission finds
this lack of support for migrants to be some sort of violation of human
rights. However due to such actions by Orban “fan base” is growing in the European “silent majority”.
Furthermore, Orban himself is reputed to have coined the term “Illiberal Democracy” as the name for what he and many in especially Eastern Europe see as a possible new political theory for the 21st century.................https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/02/01/illiberal-democracy-why-viktor-orban-fan-base-keeps-growing-in-europe.html
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