Headline đ Salvini and OrbĂĄn agree to create a new EU âcentre-rightâ. Again? How many times have we seen this before? The V4 Report is a strong supporter of Orban, we make no apologies for this, but itâs hard to figure this one out. Salvini, as one reader put it, is spent capital. Can he recover from his rapid fall? FYI: Article was written on Saturday before French elections. It is not meant to abandon the fight, but to exit a hostile terrain in order to change battlefield strategy that has not workedâŠ.we do not believe positive change is possible inside the woke, multicult EU project. There is real potential in Europe for national conservatives, but not in the EUâŠtied down by globalists and progressives. * No this was not from 2019, 2020 or 2021, but this week. Even the V4 Report believes itâs far too late. There will be no national conservative movement inside the EU, not because we do not desire one, but there are not enough true national conservatives left to prevail. In France, for instance, Macron had only a 35% approval rating but still received 58% of the vote. Think about that. đ€ To put it bluntly, the EU is a woke, progressive and multicult project to its coreâŠand change is impossible from within. ** This new right should have probably been formed in 2019 (before the EU elections, when this group was at its peak) as we championed, warning that to strike while its hot and that this opportunity would not come again. Today, that ship has sailed, it is gone. But (at that time 2019), Orban stayed within the EPP and the V4 group decided to back the disastrous Von der Leyen regime, which we strongly objected to. Salvini, to his credit and in what was possibly his last positive move, voted against VDL, but was left isolated. Some in V4 (big Morawiecki) called von der Leyen a âvictoryâ; we knew better. *** What is left of this once promising new coalition? While Orban remains strong and principled at home, he has lost several allies due to the war, whether this is permanent or not, we are not sure. (Regardless, we feel itâs a colossal mistake for the PiS to stop working with Hungary for many reasons). The FPO of Austria was ousted and has been weakened, Le Pen will not win in France and Jansa is fighting for his political life in Slovenia. Salvini has been discredited and revealed as an opportunist; few trust what he has to say since his excellent tenure as Interior Minister (his peak from which he has badly fallen due to his own actions). He is pure dead weight. The governments in the Czech Republic and Slovakia have changed, both now appeasing Brussels and embracing so-called EU solidarity. They have become easy prey for Brussels. Even the PiS is caving-in on some issues in order not to create âmore conflictsâ with the EU. Polandâs president Duda (technically an independent but no secret that he was PiS candidate) has vetoed a bill protecting children from LBGT propaganda in schools and another media law that the US and EU did not approve of. https://www.axios.com/bidens-unlikely-embrace-of-poland-7a47d7df-6b91-4556-95ff-f2ee5e06f283.html Moreover, Polandâs excellent Justice Minister Ziobro once rightly talked about exiting the Istanbul Convention and all of its âgender identityâ nonsense, but PM Morawiecki seems to have pushed this aside, at least itâs no longer discussed and seems off the table. Why? **** This post is not intended to spark debate revolving Orbanâs or the PiS position regarding the war (which can be debated inside other posts) but to only point out, at least in the view of this realist, that the national conservative movement has fizzled out within the EU. But did it ever have a real chance to succeed or was change EVER really possible, given the progressives dominating the West EU bloc? A federal EU is on the horizon. Just look at the bloated budget process and the approvals needed by the EU Commission to receive funds. ** No doubt, the differences over the war in Ukraine damaged this causeâŠbut it is our belief that this was not possible even before the war – based on the makeup and demographics of the EU. If there was ever a small chance of positive change from within (which we doubted), that chance was squandered on the post EU election madness of 2019. Bottom line: National conservatives – within the EU system – cannot win the battle for Europe. Is there a Plan B to âmore EUâ âŠ.or does one still believe the beast (EU) can be tamed/reformed from within? What happened to the Three Seas Initiative? Did Brussels get involved? https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/far-right-salvini-and-orban-agree-to-create-a-new-eu-centre-right
Headline đ Salvini and OrbĂĄn agree to create a new EU âcentre-rightâ. Again?
