\u201cThere was no rule-of-law procedure, conditionality was unthinkable. Can you imagine the U.K. accepting that? There was a natural balance,\u201d he added, referring to some EU funds being withheld from Hungary over rule of law concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis unbalanced situation created more confrontational situations. Not because we want to be confront[ational], but because we want to keep the previous balance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps trying to fill the hole left by the U.K.\u2019s departure, Orb\u00e1n created the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament this year. It\u2019s now the third-largest force in the legislature \u2014\u00a0and its member parties have recently scored major wins in elections in EU countries such as Austria<\/a>, the Netherlands<\/a> and the Czech Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t serve Hungary without getting involved in international politics,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said, adding he would prefer to focus on his own country than spearhead Patriots for Europe.<\/p>\n Orb\u00e1n will speak to the entire European Parliament on Wednesday. His speech will be followed by an address by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere was no rule-of-law procedure, conditionality was unthinkable. Can you imagine the U.K. accepting that? There was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,1105,4884,2190,7338,16,15,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-159139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-far-right","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-hungary","17":"tag-rule-of-law","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}