Hungary has received 282,000 and Poland more than 1 million refugees from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. At the same time, the European Union introduced uniform sanctions against Russia, but the European Parliament even voted to punish the two Central European countries, Newsweek reports. .
In his opinion article, Rodrigo Ballester evaluates all of this as an act by which the European leaders themselves drive new wedges between the member states. According to the news agency, the European elite, like the American one, is blinded by the cult of political correctness and willingly subordinates political priorities to dogmas and mantras that are as simplistic as they are harmful.
According to the author, this rigid way of thinking can explain the internal conflicts of the union, the price of which is now being paid by Hungary and Poland by not receiving their rightful share of the EU recovery fund. The European Commission is showing signs of insight by postponing the initiation of proceedings against the two member countries currently on the front line of the war, Newsweek assessed the situation.
The article was published on mandiner.hu
