"The Visegrad countries suffer spectacular discrimination in the European Union, and if they do not act more forcefully and together, this situation will not change," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote in response to Mikuláš Dzurinda, the former Prime Minister of Slovakia.

The Prime Minister emphasized that Slovaks and Hungarians deserve more than this.

The letter was created because Mikuláš Dzurinda rejects the Hungarian Prime Minister's proposal in an interview with Postoj.sk that the V4 countries should strive to turn the European Union, which revolves around the German-French axis, into a German-French-V4 three-pillar power center. According to Dzurinda's theory, the proposal would only strengthen the internal fragmentation of the European Union, not unify it, but tear it apart.

Viktor Orbán remarked:

"It is a fact that the countries of the V4 failed to achieve the proper validation of their interests within the framework of the union. It is a fact that we Central Europeans suffer spectacular discrimination . I claim that if we do not act more forcefully and together, this situation will not change."

Viktor Orbán explained: the current arrangement of the internal market results in the European market giving a French citizen 1,074 euros per year in additional income, a German 1,046 euros, a Slovakian 537 euros, and a Hungarian 408 euros . Furthermore, if we compare the money flowing into the V4 countries through EU transfers with the profit and dividend income exported from us, it can be seen what serious losses we are suffering. "In the case of Hungary, the difference is 80 percent, and in the case of Slovakia it is more than 90 percent."

The Prime Minister also pointed out that the countries that have joined since 2004 received 5.1 percent of the support, while our population is more than twenty percent of the Union. Our proposals to remedy the geographical imbalance were defeated.

Viktor Orbán also touched on the fact that the secondment directive was rewritten to the detriment of V4. "The first mobility package put our transport companies at a hurtful, insulting disadvantage. And then I didn't write about the brain drain, the mandatory migrant distribution quotas and the double standards used against us."

Source: MTI