The Invisible Empire: The EU’s Fiscal Turn Richard J. Schenk October 28, 2025 The EU Commission’s proposal for the next multiannual financial framework hides a political revolution in plain sight.
Brussels Blackmail: ‘If You Don’t Focus on Our Agenda, You Won’t Be Funded’ Javier Villamor September 12, 2025 The EU Commission’s new budget framework will only finance projects aligned with what it has decided are “EU priorities.”
EU’s Budget Proposal: More Money, Less Accountability—Polish MP Zbigniew Kuźmiuk Artur Ciechanowicz July 28, 2025 “The intention is for all funds to be subjected to what is euphemistically termed ‘conditionality’… no sovereign nation should accept such an arrangement.”
Brussels Paves the Way for New ‘Cash-for-Reforms’ Model Tamás Orbán November 21, 2024 Von der Leyen’s latest power grab merges departments under her control and ties EU funds to ideologically-biased conditions.
Power Grab: European Commission To Centralise Fund Distribution to Member States Graham Barnfield October 8, 2024 ‘Strings attached’ will be the norm for Brussels pay-outs.
A Blackmailer’s Charter: Sweden and Finland Push for Rule-of-Law Clause in EU Farm Subsidies Tamás Orbán September 24, 2024 The Scandinavian countries want the EU’s ideological weapon to be a “general feature in all areas of the EU budget.”
Who’s Blackmailing Whom? EU Continues to Withhold Funds from Hungary Zoltán Kottász November 8, 2023 Commission claims funds are held over rule-of-law concerns; Fidesz and PiS say process is politicised
Infamous Erasmus? The Exclusion of Hungarian Students & University from the EU’s Iconic Initiative Rodrigo Ballester June 2, 2023 The EU’s decision, abusing the law in the name of the rule of law, is nothing short of Orwellian and will have dramatic consequences for students.
Don’t Call it Rule of Law, Call it Vendetta Rodrigo Ballester February 6, 2023 The EU, in the hands of its current pilots, has become an ideological trap—political blackmail clumsily disguised in technocratic euphemisms.
European Commission vs. Hungary: Next Round Hélène de Lauzun September 23, 2022 On Sunday, MEPs concluded that Hungary could no longer be considered a democracy and pressured the Commission to suspend €7.5 billion in aid.
