{"id":48263,"date":"2025-05-28T20:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=48263"},"modified":"2025-05-28T20:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:47:36","slug":"germanys-threats-to-hungary-and-slovakia-expose-the-eus-globalist-authoritarian-drift-say-fico-and-orban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=48263","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Threats to Hungary and Slovakia Expose the EU\u2019s Globalist Authoritarian Drift, Say Fico and Orb\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/friedrich-merz-1200x630.jpg?resize=640%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-facebook wp-image-1317224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/friedrich-merz-1200x630.jpg?resize=640%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a striking turn of events that lays bare the deepening rift within the European Union, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has issued open threats against Hungary and Slovakia, warning that Berlin and Brussels may cut off vital EU funding if the two nations continue charting their own path on Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But the governments of Budapest and Bratislava are <a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/friedrich-merz-now-openly-threatening-disobedient-hungary-and-slovakia\/\">pushing back<\/a>\u2014and hard.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"958\">The Merz regime\u2019s thinly veiled blackmail came during remarks at the WDR Europaforum, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-26\/germany-s-merz-floats-cutting-off-eu-funds-to-fico-s-slovakia\">declared<\/a>, \u201cWe will not be able to avoid a conflict with Hungary and Slovakia if we continue on this course.\u201d According to Merz, the EU cannot let \u201ca small minority\u201d\u2014read: sovereign states with independent foreign policies\u2014\u201cdictate\u201d the bloc\u2019s direction. His not-so-subtle message? Fall in line with the EU\u2019s failing Ukraine policies, or face financial punishment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tgp-post-inline-1\">\n<div class=\"adcovery-postinline-01\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"960\" data-end=\"1202\">Merz added, \u201cMember states that violate the rule of law can face infringement procedures, and there is always the possibility of withdrawing European funds. If necessary, we will take care of it.\u201d Translation: do as Brussels says or else.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chancellor Merz on Slovakia and Hungary <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wnp5WmRqQT\">pic.twitter.com\/wnp5WmRqQT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pindo (@POTFES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTFES\/status\/1927407777573478730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The real crime, however, is in the eyes of the EU elite. Hungary and Slovakia refuse to buy into the fantasy that the endless flow of weapons to Kyiv will somehow bring peace. Instead, both nations have called for diplomacy and a negotiated settlement\u2014a position much more in line with US President Donald Trump\u2019s America First vision than with the war-hungry dogma of globalist-infested Brussels and Berlin.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1603\" data-end=\"2033\">Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n of Hungary has long sounded the alarm about the EU\u2019s economic suicide through sanctions. Hungary, which continues to purchase Russian gas and nuclear fuel, has rightly pointed out that these sanctions hurt European families far more than they hurt the Kremlin. In March, Budapest blocked a joint EU declaration on Ukraine\u2019s EU membership and vowed to veto any moves to eliminate Russian energy imports.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2035\" data-end=\"2429\">Slovakia, meanwhile, has returned to common sense under Prime Minister Robert Fico. Since regaining power in 2023, Fico has halted weapons shipments to Ukraine, refused to be dragged into NATO\u2019s escalation games, and has begun repairing his nation\u2019s energy relationship with Moscow. He\u2019s even dared to say aloud what few in Brussels will admit: \u201cEurope needs Russia, and Russia needs Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2431\" data-end=\"2482\">Unsurprisingly, the EU globalists can\u2019t stand this.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2484\" data-end=\"3005\">Fico, never one to mince words, blasted Merz\u2019s threats as \u201cabsolutely unacceptable in modern Europe.\u201d Speaking during a visit to Armenia, the Slovak leader said, \u201cSlovakia is not a little schoolchild that needs to be lectured. The politics of a single mandatory opinion is the end of democracy.\u201d He added that such an authoritarian mindset is \u201cnot the path toward cohesion and cooperation,\u201d warning that \u201cif we don\u2019t respect democratic standards and national sovereignty, this could lead Europe to World War III.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SLOVAKIA IS NOT A LITTLE SCHOOLCHILD THAT NEEDS TO BE LECTURED<br \/>\nSlovakia\u2019s sovereign positions do not stem from vanity, but are based on our national interests.<br \/>\nThe politics of a single mandatory opinion is a denial of sovereignty and democracy.<br \/>\nWhen you hear such aggressive\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xr1WexRZny\">pic.twitter.com\/xr1WexRZny<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Fico (@RobertFicoSVK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertFicoSVK\/status\/1927424063930085504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, the situation is growing more Orwellian by the day. While Merz warns Hungary and Slovakia of funding cuts over their \u2018pro-Russian\u2019 positions, it\u2019s his own government that\u2019s overseeing skyrocketing energy prices, growing dependence on coal, and economic stagnation\u2014all thanks to Berlin\u2019s self-imposed rejection of Russian energy and the obsession with ideological climate policy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3397\" data-end=\"3928\">And the double standards don\u2019t stop there. Hungary has long faced threats, frozen funds, and institutional sabotage from the EU over its defense of traditional values and national sovereignty. Just last month, Prime Minister Orb\u00e1n accused Brussels of working with Hungary\u2019s left-wing opposition to topple his government by choking off EU resources. \u201cThey agreed to destroy the Hungarian economy, the Hungarian healthcare system, and the living standards of Hungarians, in order to help the Tisza party come to power,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3930\" data-end=\"4235\">Meanwhile, in Slovakia, the EU dispatched a \u201cbudgetary control\u201d delegation to dig up dirt and apply pressure\u2014a political stunt dismissed by Slovak Interior Minister Mat\u00fa\u0161 \u0160utaj E\u0161tok as a \u201cpunitive expedition.\u201d He rightly called it an attempt to paint Slovakia as a \u201cblack hole on the map of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4237\" data-end=\"4514\">Despite these attacks, the Hungarian and Slovak governments have refused to waver. They have consistently supported humanitarian aid to Ukraine, maintained economic stability at home, and\u2014unlike their Western counterparts\u2014acted in the genuine interests of their own people.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4516\" data-end=\"4803\">The truth is becoming impossible to hide: the EU, led by Germany, is no longer a club of sovereign nations cooperating for mutual benefit. It has morphed into an empire of compliance, where disobedience to Brussels\u2019 ideological line is met with threats, blackmail, and financial warfare.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4805\" data-end=\"4964\">Fico and Orb\u00e1n are not the problem\u2014they are the last defenders of democracy, sovereignty, and sanity in a Europe rapidly spiraling into technocratic tyranny.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4966\" data-end=\"5139\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In the words of Robert Fico: \u201cIf someone wants to implement the politics of only one mandatory view, then it is the end of democracy in Europe.\u201d And he\u2019s absolutely right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tgp-post-above-comments\">\n<div class=\"adcovery-postbelow-01\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/05\/germanys-threats-hungary-slovakia-expose-eus-globalist-authoritarian\/\">Germany\u2019s Threats to Hungary and Slovakia Expose the EU\u2019s Globalist Authoritarian Drift, Say Fico and Orb\u00e1n<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a striking turn of events that lays bare the deepening rift within the European Union, German Chancellor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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