Budapest, December 12 (EFE). – The vote on the indefinite immobilization of Russian assets in Europe will cause serious damage and mean the end of the rule of law in the EU, said this Friday the Hungarian Prime Minister, the ultra-nationalist Viktor Orbán, Moscow’s main ally in the Community bloc.
“Today begins a written vote that will cause irreparable damage to the Union,” Orbán said on the social network Facebook, referring to the almost 210 billion Russian euros frozen by European sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine and an important step to be able to use them for the future reconstruction of that country.
The ultra-nationalist added that this procedure would eliminate the requirement for unanimity within the European Union (EU) “in one fell swoop” “in a patently unlawful manner.”
For Orbán, this step means that “the rule of law is disappearing in the EU and European leaders are putting themselves above the rules. Instead of being the guardian of the treaties, the European Commission is systematically violating European law.”
In this way, the rule of law will be replaced by “the rule of bureaucrats, that is, the dictatorship of Brussels,” emphasized the Prime Minister, who has been in office since 2010.
According to the Magyar prime minister, whose country is no longer a full democracy for many experts, the European Commission is pushing ahead with the vote “to continue the obviously unwinnable war in Ukraine.”
“All this less than a week before the meeting of the European Council, the EU’s main decision-making body where heads of state and government meet,” he added.
Orbán assured that he would protest against this decision, planned for today not by consensus, but by the majority of member states, and would do everything to “restore legality.”
The EU has frozen almost 210 billion euros in community funds for Hungary, precisely because of the dismantling of the rule of law in the country under Orbán.
Belgium, where most of these Russian assets are located, rejects the proposal for fear of retaliation from Moscow and questions the use of emergency powers to indefinitely freeze assets subject to sanctions. EFE
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