"EU lawmakers urge pressure on Hungary to respect rule of law"

Time for the Australia-Hungarian Empire to assert itself.

Oh, wait. 

From Reuters, January 12:

• Top punishment could suspend Hungary's vote in the EU
• Poland's new PM less likely to shield Orban from EU sanctions
• Ukraine caught in evermore bitter feuds between EU and Orban After Orban veto, Feb.1 EU summit to try agree 50 bln euros for Kyiv

A group of EU lawmakers called on member states' governments on Friday to punish Hungary's Viktor Orban for damaging democracy at home by moving one step closer to suspending Budapest's vote in the bloc, a letter signed by the lawmakers showed.

One hundred and twenty of the European Parliament's 705 members singed the letter after Orban blocked a review of the bloc's budget in December that included granting Ukraine 50 billion euros ($55 billion) in new financial aid through 2027....

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Last year, in response to similar pressure, President O. started channeling Men Without Hats.

From Politico.eu, October 23, 2023:

Orbán slams Brussels as a ‘bad contemporary parody’ of Soviet Union

‘We had to dance to the tune that Moscow whistled, Brussels whistles too, but we dance as we want to, and if we don’t want to, then we don’t dance.’.... 

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance
And if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine...