Not to defend Orban but this one time he makes sense lol, Europe is a huge energy importer and they were already deindustrializing due to the high cost of energy imports, if you add the current war on Iran it will collapse a big part of European industry and make everything more expensive for y’all, the people feeling the brunt of this crisis won’t be the oligarchs, it will be regular people losing their jobs at the same time the cost of living goes up
You are right. But this crisis could be used to accelerate green energy and independence on other countries. Imagine breaking free of all the economic impact having to do with fossil fuels -which is a finite source of power that’s running out anyway- and at the same time making your air cleaner.
Covid actually did that for a little while. When people worked from home smog levels dropped dramatically and some cities saw blue skies they hadn’t had in decades. Never waste a good crisis.
even if Magyar wins and Orbán accepts defeat, it is unclear exactly what the new PM will be able to do. “Orbán has been in power for 16 years,” says Freund, who returned last weekend from a fact-finding mission to Hungary.
“He has appointed everyone who is anyone in the public media, the courts, the state agencies, the central bank … If his appointees refuse, for example, to approve the new government’s budget, Tisza could be facing snap elections within a year.”
Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, is having a hard enough time rolling back the previous nationalist government’s judicial and other reforms, Freund noted – “and Law and Justice (PiS) had only been in power there for eight years. Magyar faces a truly formidable challenge”.
Plus, says Freund, when it comes to Hungary’s dealings with the EU, though a Tisza-led government “will want to avoid isolation, it won’t want to veto” – nobody should expect “a complete policy shift” on hot-button issues such as Ukraine or immigration.
Orban will be gone soon, fortunately.
I too am looking forward to my energy costs quadrupling, fortunately.
Not to defend Orban but this one time he makes sense lol, Europe is a huge energy importer and they were already deindustrializing due to the high cost of energy imports, if you add the current war on Iran it will collapse a big part of European industry and make everything more expensive for y’all, the people feeling the brunt of this crisis won’t be the oligarchs, it will be regular people losing their jobs at the same time the cost of living goes up
You are right. But this crisis could be used to accelerate green energy and independence on other countries. Imagine breaking free of all the economic impact having to do with fossil fuels -which is a finite source of power that’s running out anyway- and at the same time making your air cleaner. Covid actually did that for a little while. When people worked from home smog levels dropped dramatically and some cities saw blue skies they hadn’t had in decades. Never waste a good crisis.
That’s the dream
be still my beating heart … let’s hope Hungarian’s think similarly.
According to the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/viktor-orban-hungary-parliamentary-election-eu-ukraine