Hungary: new president Sulyok in Brussels' crosshairs
Hungarian president Sulyok, in office for just a month, is facing calls to resign. Brussels is looking for a crisis to justify new defence funds.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
The President of the European Commission doesn't need a real war, but an institutional crisis. Hungary is providing one.
Hungary's new president, Tamás Sulyok, has barely been in office for a month, appointed after the pardon scandal that forced Katalin Novák's resignation. Yet calls for his resignation are already mounting. The reason is not his performance, but his symbolic value.
A decorative president against the Brussels machinery
Sulyok is Viktor Orbán's decorative piece, a president with limited powers who cannot even block his prime minister's decisions. But Brussels knows that attacking the president gives it a media excuse to intensify Hungary's diplomatic isolation.
The background: EU funds and the veto on Ukraine
Hungary has repeatedly blocked military and financial aid to Ukraine. Von der Leyen needs an institutional crisis to justify the creation of the defence fund and the sharing of joint debt, two instruments that require a climate of political emergency. Hungary, with its constant veto, is the perfect scapegoat.
The open question is not whether Sulyok will resign, but whether his fall will serve to push the EU towards a more integrated fiscal and defence union. Time, and the budget negotiations, will tell.
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Hungary's new president, Tamás Sulyok, has barely been in office for a month, appointed after the pardon scandal that forced Katalin Novák's resignation. Yet calls for his resignation are already mounting. The reason is not his performance, but his symbolic value.
A decorative president against the Brussels machinery
Sulyok is Viktor Orbán's decorative piece, a president with limited powers who cannot even block his prime minister's decisions. But Brussels knows that attacking the president gives it a media excuse to intensify Hungary's diplomatic isolation.
The background: EU funds and the veto on Ukraine
Hungary has repeatedly blocked military and financial aid to Ukraine. Von der Leyen needs an institutional crisis to justify the creation of the defence fund and the sharing of joint debt, two instruments that require a climate of political emergency. Hungary, with its constant veto, is the perfect scapegoat.
The open question is not whether Sulyok will resign, but whether his fall will serve to push the EU towards a more integrated fiscal and defence union. Time, and the budget negotiations, will tell.
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