Enjoying the view from Limbo
It has been revealed that Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, was in regular and surreptitious contact with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, specifically tasked with undermining EU policies toward Vladimir Putin’s regime and feeding inside information about high-level European strategy meetings to the Kremlin. Furthermore, according to prime minister-elect Péter Magyar, in the hours after the Orbán government suffered a crushing electoral...
The European Union appears to be on the verge of doing the bravest thing anyone could do in this moment of escalating and ever-more blatant pro-Kremlin machinations by the White House, namely taking their collective security into their own hands the way one must do when one finally comes to terms with the fact that one has been abandoned by one’s strongest ally....
Donald Trump is parading around another “greatest deal ever made,” this one with the European Union. And once again, like his deal of the century with Japan, the trumpeted victory is a permanent (until Trump changes his whim of the month) fifteen percent tariff on most goods from Europe, as though fifteen percent were a great accomplishment because it is only half as...
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