Setting an Example by Condemning Hungary

The outcome of the lawsuit against Hungary over its ban on homosexual and gender propaganda in schools will decide whether woke ideology can be made compulsory in EU member states, Rodrigo Ballester, head of the Center for European Studies at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium told Magyar Nemzet. Brussels is preparing to strip EU member states of their competences, citing shared European values, while applying double standards to some countries, the international expert stressed. In his view, all this is happening despite the fact that America clearly said 'no' to wokeism by electing Donald Trump.

Institutionalized arbitrariness

There is a serious risk, he stressed, that the EU will use common values to interfere in matters that fall within the competence of nation states. A good example is the issue of media freedom, which Brussels has stated is closely linked to the internal market and is therefore also an EU competence. "If we take this argument as a starting point, then even the sexual education of Hungarian children is linked to the internal market, and Brussels can use this as a pretext to take all national competences."

My fear is that in the name of European values ​​and the rule of law, which can be applied to everything, the EU can accuse member states of anything, but of course only if it wants to.

Brussels is doing this to Hungary, and it is also applying double standards when it leaves alone, for example, Spain, which has become a kleptocracy. This is institutionalized arbitrariness, said the head of the MCC Center for European Studies.

Orwellian and frightening

He pointed out that this perverse mechanism was exposed by the dispute around the Erasmus scheme with Brussels excluding Hungarian students at the model-changing Hungarian universities from the EU student exchange programs. There is no better example of the double standards used against Hungary than the fact that students from the 21 model-changing Hungarian universities cannot participate in the Erasmus program on an individual basis, while the Russian students can. "The EU has no say whatsoever in the organization of education, yet collective punishment is applied without prior investigation, for a behavior they assumed but never experienced, and all in the name of the rule of law. This is truly Orwellian and frightening, said Rodrigo Ballester.

The expert also highlighted that

with the re-election of Donald Trump, the United States firmly rejected the woke ideology, which Brussels would force down the throats of Hungarians through financial blackmail, in the name of anti-discrimination.

The mechanism is in place to make woke mandatory, which is dramatic and dystopian, as this ideology leads to the mutilation and irreversible physical harming of young children. "I would very much like the Brussels bureaucrats to look at the pictures of double mastectomy and vaginoplasty (surgical procedure to convert the primary male genital organ into a female genital organ) and then decide whether the Hungarian legislation can be considered discriminatory. This will backfire on Brussels because Hungary will not give up and will resist, for which I will be forever grateful to the Hungarian government." 

Cover photo:  Brussels would force woke ideology down the throats of Hungarians through financial blackmail, says Rodrigo Ballester, head of the Center for European Studies at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (Photo: Zoltan Havran)