"Orbán made Hungary a Banana Republic"
"Hungary under Orbán has become an un-liberal & oligarchy regime."
"You led RUS spies into our schengen system"
"You are a useful idiot of RUS & CHN"
"Mr Orbán you are the most corrupt politician in the EU"
EU politicians speak out clearly to the strategy of Orbán. They are not fooled & get to the point.
"This war has nothing to do with NATO. It's not NATO’s war," said Stefan Kornelius, spokesperson for GER Chancellor Merz
"I would also like to remind you that the U.S. and Israel did not consult us before the war, and that Washington explicitly stated at the start of the war that European assistance was neither necessary nor desired," Kornelius said.
This is the clear & unmistakable Message I appreciate in EU politicians.
#USApolitics #EUpolitics #EUROPEsaysNO2Trump
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-trump-this-not-nato-war-strait-hormuz-iran/
Europe prepares to approve historic emergency oil release
I analysed 4 key EU Parliament votes (EUDR, Omnibus 1, Climate Law 2040, Deforestation Regulation) using official roll-call records. The EPP sides with the far right. S&D is splitting. No stable pro-climate majority exists.
Hungary’s Cash Seizure From Ukrainian Convoy Raises New Questions About War Financing and European Unity
#UkraineWar
#Hungary
#EUPolitics
#Geopolitics
#WarEconomy
https://eng.harbouchanews.com/2026/03/hungarys-cash-seizure-from-ukrainian.html
I'm not saying "Europe needs a post-EU future" to be edgy.
The EU's bureaucratic class was formed by, and is optimized for, a world that no longer exists: American security guarantees, cheap Russian energy, export-led growth into open global markets, rule-based international order.
Every instinct that class has, whether it's more regulation, more institutional process, more... Brussels... is a response calibrated to that vanished world.
What the current moment requires is the capacity to make fast, concentrated, high-stakes decisions under adversarial conditions. That is structurally what the EU cannot do.
Qualified majority voting, the Commission's agenda-setting monopoly, the European Parliament's deliberative pace, these are institutional features designed to prevent concentrated power, which in a world of peer adversaries means they prevent effective action.
Let's look at Europe in March of 2026:
It is energetically dependent (to an existential-level threat) on a superpower that has officially documented its intent to dissolve European liberal institutions and fund their far-right opponents.
It has traded Russian pipeline leverage for American LNG leverage, with a $750 billion deal that locks that in through 2028 at minimum.
It faces a live energy shock from Hormuz that neither US LNG capacity nor Qatari alternatives can rapidly substitute.
It entered this crisis with historically low gas storage precisely when it needed buffer.
It dismantled nuclear baseload on ideological grounds, and that capacity is now gone for a generation.
Washington chose to start a US-Iran-Israel war with full knowledge of the energy consequences for Europe, not that it matters, EU can't really do much but stomach it, and actually fully support the war hoping it will end soon so business as usual can resume in Hormuz.
After years of trying to accommodate Washington in every possible way, it has become evident that the approach does not work. The Trump administration clearly considers European subservience a sign of weakness.
In the meantime, people here will tell you "see how beautiful EU is, we have USB-C", these people are either naive or part of an astroturfing campaign.
ReArmEU, Digital Sovereignty, Omnibus are all the desperate attempts of a bureaucratic class that knows their Mandate of Heaven was pulled.
Moreover, Europe needs a post-EU future.
#Romania is hosting the Aegis Ashore system at Deveselu. Known locally as the missile defence "shield", it is specifically built for intercepting Iranian missile strikes on US assets, and a potential target for Iranian retaliatory strikes.
Retired Romanian General Virgil Bălăceanu states, "the shield doesn't protect us, we're protecting the shield".
Romania finds itself in a pickle, providing territory, labour, and legal cover for US power projection in an attempt to curry favour with Washington and NATO, against a genuine threat from Russia.
It is now forced to grapple with potential strikes on its territory, but has no material basis from which it can articulate an independent position: Romania is thoroughly integrated into NATO patronage networks, US security guarantees, and EU funding conditionalities.
https://adevarul.ro/stiri-interne/evenimente/nu-ne-apara-scutul-de-la-deveselu-e-exact-2512424.html
#EU #EUPol #Iran #Israel #Deveselu #Military #EUPolitics #geopolitics #war
Escaladarea tensiunilor dintre SUA, Israel și Iran pune România într-o lumină nouă pe harta strategică. Cu baza de la Deveselu în alertă și experiența recentă a operatiunilor de la Mihail Kogălniceanu, capacitatea de interceptare a rachetelor balistice iraniene devine subiect de securitate națională
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