{"id":415817,"date":"2022-03-14T05:46:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T02:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/conservative-eu-countries-facing-pressure-to-turn-woke\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T05:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T02:46:30","slug":"conservative-eu-countries-facing-pressure-to-turn-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/conservative-eu-countries-facing-pressure-to-turn-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"#Conservative EU countries facing pressure to turn woke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27c121ca44f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27c121ca44f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/conservative-eu-countries-facing-pressure-to-turn-woke\/#%E2%80%9CConservative_EU_countries_facing_pressure_to_turn_woke%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Conservative EU countries facing pressure to turn woke&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/conservative-eu-countries-facing-pressure-to-turn-woke\/#Brussels_overreach\" >Brussels overreach\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/conservative-eu-countries-facing-pressure-to-turn-woke\/#Europes_lefty_bloc\" >Europe\u2019s lefty bloc\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CConservative_EU_countries_facing_pressure_to_turn_woke%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Conservative EU countries facing pressure to turn woke&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you ever doubted that woke ideologues are heartless hypocrites, look at what the liberal European Union just did to Poland and Hungary, even while those conservative countries were doing their best to accommodate 1.7 million Ukrainian refugees streaming across their borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe in the middle of the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II, but the European Parliament voted last week to slap millions of dollars in economic sanctions on the former Communist countries, including freezing pandemic loans, as punishment for refusing to go along with so-called EU \u201cvalues.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their sin is to have conservative populist governments that rejected open border and LGBTQ policies imposed by Brussels. Like Florida and Texas, Poland and Hungary have passed laws banning schools from indoctrinating young children on gender ideology and sexual orientation. And the nations refused to allow illegal migrants from the Middle East overrun their borders after Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel unilaterally ushered millions of mainly young Muslim men into Europe in 2015 during the Syrian crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaxpayers\u2019 money needs to be protected against those who undermine the EU\u2019s values,\u201d the European Parliament declared in a press release on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coming just three weeks before Hungary\u2019s conservative nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban asks voters for a fifth term, the EU intervention is nothing less than election interference, says his chief political adviser, Bolasz Orban (no relation).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bolasz Orban, 36, says Hungary\u2019s government has been under \u201cridiculous pressure for years\u201d from Brussels because of its conservative, family-first policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiberal policies became very popular in some of the Brussels institutions, especially in the European Parliament,\u201d Bolasz Orban said on the phone from Budapest Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ukraine-poland.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Ukrainian refugees lined up at a border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland on March 13, 2022. \" class=\"wp-image-21515940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ukraine-poland.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ukraine-poland.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/ukraine-poland.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Ukrainian refugees lined up at a border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland on March 13, 2022. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Zohra Bensemra<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThose politicians, the majority are leftists, liberal, green progressives. Politically, they are on a different side. The problem is they think about European cooperation from an ideological point of view when it never was originally about ideological homogeneity [but] economic prosperity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On border security, energy policy, education, and family values, he says, Brussels\u2019 liberal overlords are trying to impose their will on Hungary\u2019s democratically-elected government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are warm-heartedly welcoming the Ukrainian refugees,\u201d says Orban, pointing out that Hungary has accepted \u201cabout 400,000\u201d refugees since the Russian invasion, a significant burden on a country of 10 million people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Hungary wants to retain the right to distinguish between illegal migrants from half a world away and refugees fleeing a war zone next door.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brussels_overreach\"><\/span>Brussels overreach\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The EU is trying to \u201cdestroy all the legal mechanisms which are necessary to secure our borders, the structures we invented, the fence, the physical borders and legal mechanisms . . . They want to make it impossible [to stop] illegal migrants.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the EU is trying to force Hungary to overturn laws passed by its parliament which ban the indoctrination of children in the finer points of gender fluidity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say it goes against homosexuality and sexual minorities. That\u2019s a lie. Hungary is a free country. Everyone can do whatever he or she wants after the age of 18 but we are protecting our children and saving them from gender propaganda starting in kindergarten and they are attacking that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On energy, Hungary has come under pressure from Germany and Austria to close its nuclear power plants, which provide almost half its electricity and help keep Hungary\u2019s greenhouse-gas emissions among the lowest in Europe. Without nuclear power, Hungary would be even more dependent on Russian gas, which provides 80% of household heating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/viktor-orban.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief political adviser accused the EU of election interference after it sanctioned Hungary five weeks before the country's election.\" class=\"wp-image-21515950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/viktor-orban.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/viktor-orban.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/viktor-orban.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s chief political adviser accused the EU of election interference after it sanctioned Hungary five weeks before the country\u2019s election.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Sarah Meyssonnier<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who has branded EU climate plans as \u201cutopian fantasy\u201d and blamed them for Europe\u2019s soaring energy prices, eventually agreed to the Brussels target of net zero emissions by 2050.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Hungary c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed utility prices in the country to protect families from rising energy costs. This also fell afoul of the EU, says Bolasz Orban.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, there is a price cap on utility costs and that\u2019s why the Hungarian people pay the lowest utility bills in Europe. From a market liberalization point of view [the EU] keeps attacking this price cap.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hungary spends 6.2% of its gross domestic product on family support programs, twice as much as the OECD average, encouraging couples to have more kids. A staggeringly generous new Family Housing Allowance Program offers $130,000, plus a $220,000 loan, to families who promise to have at least three children, so they can build a new green home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Married Hungarian women get a $30,000 low interest \u201cbaby loan\u201d which becomes interest-free after the first child and doesn\u2019t have to be repaid after the third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, Brussels liberals disapprove. \u201cOur problem is that on the one hand they are not supporting these ideas and on the other hand . . . always in the Brusselian documents it\u2019s about giving the money to illegal migrants and not supporting Hungarian families.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authoritarian overreach by Brussels forced the UK\u2019s \u201cBrexit\u201d out of the EU. But Orban says a \u201cHexit\u201d is not on the cards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/viktor-orban-0.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Orban's government features several pro-family policies such as loans for parents.\" class=\"wp-image-21515958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/viktor-orban-0.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/viktor-orban-0.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/viktor-orban-0.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Orban\u2019s government features several pro-family policies such as loans for parents.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHungarians are very much pro-European. . . It comes from medieval history when we were the last frontier, the defenders of Christian Europe. We want to be members of the club but grassroots voters can distinguish between being pro-Europe and critical toward Brussels.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Europes_lefty_bloc\"><\/span>Europe\u2019s lefty bloc\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To understand Hungary\u2019s plight, imagine Washington, DC, was Brussels and the Biden administration was in permanent rule. A horrible thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, four of the five largest member state of the EU \u2014 Italy, Spain, France, Germany \u2014 are led by progressive, green or liberal governments. Only Poland is majority conservative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bolasz Orban asks the EU to imagine if the situation were reversed, and conservatives became the majority bloc, and decided to disrespect the national sovereignty of smaller countries. How would Sweden and Holland like it if they were pressured to cancel same-sex marriage, for example?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smug leftists should remember that the worm always turns, so it is best to treat your opponents as you would wish to be treated.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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