Orbán: When Conservatives Win, Democracy Is Questioned
The Hungarian PM said the people of Georgia have prevented their country from becoming a “second Ukraine.”
The Hungarian PM said the people of Georgia have prevented their country from becoming a “second Ukraine.”
EU warns election outcome could have consequences for country’s EU accession path.
Brussels has threatened to derail the country’s path to the EU if it doesn’t do as it is told.
The referendum, held alongside the presidential election, saw a slim majority in favour of EU integration.
The EU’s foreign affairs chief threatened Tbilisi by saying that failure to withdraw the law would “derail” the country’s accession process.
Recent efforts to punish Georgia risk precipitating, rather than deterring, the country’s drift toward Russia.
The sovereigntist, anti-liberal government is being attacked by the West for a law which resembles similar ones throughout the West.
While passing a similar foreign agent bill at home, Brussels is at odds with a proposed law in Georgia to constrain external NGOs ahead of Tbilisi’s 2030 entry to the bloc.
Brussels faces the paradox of accession and enlargement importing potentially rebellious conservative member states from the east.
Atlanticists stoke fears that EU-aspiring Georgia is another Hungary.
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