EU threatens to freeze €7.5bn earmarked for Hungary unless it stops fraud

They claim "Fraud", but they cant even keep the real reason a secret

The bloc has lost patience with Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s determination to engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin

More double talk:

For more than a decade, the EU has unsuccessfully tried to keep Orban in the fold while mostly looking past his antagonistic approach to the bloc, including repeated efforts to hamper EU sanctions on Russia. On Sunday, the EU changed tack and threatened to freeze €7.5bn earmarked for Hungary unless it takes steps to curb fraud and corruption. 

Now for some salty tears, delish!

Europe is entering a critical phase with energy shortages set to increase the strains on the fragile unity that the 27 EU members have managed to maintain since the February invasion. But while most member states have been engaged in a desperate scramble to secure alternative gas supplies ahead of the winter, Orban has deepened his country’s ties to the Kremlin, exploiting the exemptions he demanded from EU sanctions to secure increased imports of gas from Russia. 

But I find this really funny. All the EU countries are busy screwing themselves in the back, and yet they somehow allowed Hungary to be exempt from the sanctions. And now they are screaming that Hungary is having a darn good time.

Orban’s popularity is also supported by some of the cheapest gasoline in Europe thanks to a price cap that is largely possible because of low-cost Russian imports. Hungary’s oil pipeline to Russia is also exempt from EU sanctions. 

Its like a bunch of school kids, dipping their ice creams in the garbage pile, and then blaming the one kid who was smart enough not to do that, kek.

But now, Poland is coming defense of the Hungary:

“Poland will strongly oppose any action of European institutions that intend to unduly deprive any member states of funds, in this case Hungary,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Sunday.

The reason for this is right there in the previous paragraph, in between the double talk:

The war in Ukraine has soured Orban’s relationship with the Polish government, which has been among the most ardent supporters of firm action against Putin, but for now the Poles are standing by Orban.

Yep, democracy is the real problem here folks, the more you let people think for themselves, gawd-darn-it, they go and do things very inconvenient to the E-lites.

At this point they might just come outright and say openly that they want to get rid of the democracy.

Appetite for action is increasing across the bloc, with EU legislators last week saying inaction has “exacerbated the backslide” and that Hungary can no longer be considered full democracy

Lets see how many countries they will say are not "full democracy". Looks like Italy is poised for a conservative government, and probably all the countries will go that way. Fun times!