Hungarian President Viktor Orbán could become the President of the EU Council after the current president former Belgian prime minister Charles Michel announced his intention to run as a member of the European Parliament (MEP).
The European Conservative reported that the news has caused “panic” in Brussels saying that succession rules mean Orbán could become the provisional president as Michel will be stepping down half a year earlier than expected.
Michel will throw in the towel as EU Council President in mid July according to De Standaard.
“If I am elected, I will take the oath. I will exercise my duties as President of the European Council until I am sworn in as a Member of the European Parliament in mid-July.” he said.
“At the end of June or the beginning of July, the European Council can anticipate my departure and decide on a successor,” he said.
Journalist Tamás Orbán wrote that many in the “left-leaning” EU establishment had been “campaigning to prevent Hungary from taking on the rotating presidency for months, which would not only be unprecedented but an arguably illegal and completely undemocratic move as well.
“Now, the prospect of the conservative, sovereigntist Hungary simultaneously assuming both the rotating presidency and the role of the president is a pill that proves to be too hard to swallow in Brussels.” he said.
Michel’s announcement drew criticism from liberal MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld who reacted on X saying. “The Captain leaving the ship in the middle of a storm. If that is how little committed you are to the fate of the European Union, then how credible are you as a candidate?”
Former MEP Andrew Duff, who specialised in constitutional affairs, called the move “a big bad dereliction” who emphasised the Council President’s role in playing the central constitutional function in forming the new Commission in accord with the Parliament.
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Although the ideal situation is to leave the eu and every global entity entirely, this is good news as he has vowed to remove all the leftists.
We need an Orban.
We gave hospitality to many Hungarians when their attempt to leave the Soviet Union was crushed by Russian tanks.! Now he is one of the few nations to try and protect the EU from another invasion.
Oh the Ironies. The Brussels far left fat cats cannot, nor have the determination, to stop all of Tribal Africa and the Middle East arriving..!
Seeing the low place to which liberals and their globalist masters have brought the EU, Orban might do it some good.
So the President of the EU Council is jumping like a rat from the sinking ship that is the EU. He has sniffed the breeze and it has the putrid stink of the defecation colliding with the rotation.
The EU is toast,accelerated by the demise of the German Industrial base ,destroyed by its US ‘ally’s’ destruction of its cheap Gas energy supply from the NS1&2 underwater pipelines.
The EU has destroyed the economies and social stability of its members by its insane Climate . ideologies.its lunatic Mass Migration policies and its warmongering support in Ukraine.
The EU has proven it is but a puppet of EU Foreign Policy and was always just the Henhouse to corral diverse European Nations under incompetent leaders for easier control , with its powerless fake Parliament and unelected leaders in the Council and Commission.
There is some discussion that Varadkar and Martin might be in the running.They have indeed been wearing out their kneepads in their nauseating servility to all diktats of the EU.
Having destroyed the Irish Nation by Mass Plantation Migration ,they now aspire to reek havoc in the EU. Both are but incompetent parochial poltical hacks, suffering intellectual deficits, proven liars and buffoons without integrity. Ideal delusional flunkies for a EU position.
Besides Martin and Varadkar have been proscribed by the Russian Federation for their unwise, uninformed verbal attacks and are unsuitable for the expected negotiations required soon, on the European security architecture after the collapse of the Ukrainian neo Nazi Regime.
I support Martin and Varadkar’s bid for a EU position.They have the Zelensky curse on them,everything they touch turns to sheet.
victor Orban is someone who could well be needed in the EU council, it’s too left wing as it stands , so a bit of balance by having Orban elected wouldn’t do any harm IMO .