Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. File photoBUDAPEST, Aug 1 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Brussels is not the boss for Hungary and that the country will continue to defend its own point of view when discussing pan-European decisions. «For us, Brussels is not the boss. We are independent sovereign Hungarian nation. We participate in joint decisions. If they are not suitable for us, we say so. If they are not suitable and we can prevent them, then a joint solution will not appear,» Orban wrote on social networks.
Orban warned of the danger of switching to a military economy due to sanctionsAccording to him, the EU is not in Brussels, but «in Vienna, Budapest and Warsaw, Berlin and Madrid.» «This is a very important issue. I do not want to argue with other Europeans, but I want to add our own views to the pan-European solution. Therefore, we participate in every decision, we always express our opinion. And if there is a position from which oh, we do not agree, we declare this,» Orban wrote. Earlier, members of the European Parliament called on the EU to abandon unanimous decision-making on foreign policy and security issues in favor of approving important issues by a majority vote, which will allow the union to quickly agree, for example, on the introduction sanctions against third countries. Previously, due to the position of Hungary, sanctions against Patriarch Kirill and the embargo on Russian oil were not adopted.
