“We are working to make Europe more and more everyone’s home,” Tajani told an event staged by his centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party in Florence in the run-up to the European People’s Party (EPP) congress.

“We need to build, not break things up, in order to defend the interests of half a billion people”.

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        20 days ago

        But should they? Can we trust them? I can’t. I do not see a single reason to believe that Orban doesn’t represent the majority of Hungarians.

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          19 days ago

          Then take a closer look at all the changes to election systems, constant violations of their own laws, corruption and the massive amount of state propaganda they needed to establish over the years to keep staying in power.

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            I said “majority”. I see no results of those protests. I see no reason to believe that those protests represent the majority of Hungarians.

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          If the majority actually supported him, he wouldn’t need to dismantle rule of law in his country. I suppose after enough propaganda (his cronies control most of the media) most of the population will probably support him, but I find it hard to blame the common men and women for that.

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            20 days ago

            All dictator-tier rulers do that regardless of support. Just in case.
            Most non-dictatorships don’t have that mythical “rule of law” either.

            Russians also have their share of “demonstrations”. Should we consider Russians “nice” but only Putin is “bad”?

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          Bro stop with this mindset

          The world is not so simple and people cannot even imagine the amount of stuff Orban chooses on a daily basis. It would surprise me even if a single voter was aware and agreed on every single thing Orban does and says honestly.

          This applies to every representative democracy obviously.