The EU uses the vague concept of the rule of law for political blackmail, the main objective is a breakthrough in the field of gender front - believes Bernát László Veszprémy, MCC lecturer.
Rodrigo Ballester, head of the European Studies Center at MCC, gave a lecture on the EU rule of law procedure against our country at the MCC. As he explained in his introduction, people hear a lot about law, European values, corruption, minority protection and money, but few people see what the process is about. There is no erasure culture at MCC, you can say anything here, the instructor predicted.
For the time being, we cannot know what is going on in the negotiations, behind closed doors, but we know that another red line has now been crossed with the withdrawal of the Erasmus grant. It was a very high-level, serious move that Ballester would rather call vendetta and blackmail than rule of law.
The story actually started during the Covid, when the EU economies were in a serious situation. At that time, the EU decided that a common loan should be taken out, because the individual member states are already so indebted that they would only receive a loan under very bad conditions. For the Italians, e.g. the national debt as a percentage of GDP is 130%, but the situation in France and Spain shows a similar picture, not to mention the Greeks. The Hungarian national debt is 75%, which is not that big. However, the EU was able to borrow together under good conditions.
By the way, this was a big step towards federalization, a kind of "Hamilton moment", since those who borrow money together, undertake joint duties, and manage the debt together, will therefore make the alliance much closer.
Rule of law conditions were set as a condition for the distribution of money. "We could talk about this for three hours, or three PhDs", even then we wouldn't get any closer to the definition of the rule of law, noted Ballester, but the point is anyway how the EU sees the issue. For them, the rule of law is the independence of the judiciary. But this condition was originally not intended to punish, but to protect the budget, and the European Court of Justice made a final decision on this a year ago. No one is on the side of corruption, it is a completely legitimate demand on the part of German or Dutch taxpayers that their tax euros do not finance expensive watches or cars. But the current mechanism is a "recipe for arbitrariness", as they protect legal security in the name of the rule of law by violating the law.
The situation is quite strange, since if the loan were to be repaid tomorrow, Hungary and Poland would pay without ever receiving the aid.
But Hungary no longer has access to some general sources. Here, not only the issue of the rule of law is raised, but also the issue of "European values", according to which Hungary does not respect them. From a legal point of view, of course, the Child Protection Act has nothing to do with EU competences, but since EU lawyers work with "extended woke-ism", they concluded that the allocation of resources must be compatible with the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, and in one point it states that must conform to the "gender ideology".
According to Ballester, this shows that the devil hides in the fine print of the contracts, in the details, as now they are withholding money by referring to this detail, which is not related to the sources. In the future, according to the instructor, even stronger pressure should be expected in gender matters.
Source: Mandiner.hu
Author : Bernát László Veszprémy
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