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Exactly. I was disappointed to see that the article did not include the surprisingly quick rebuttal reply from the EU which I believe arrived withing a few hours. By leaving that part out The Guardian is just amplifying the silly but damaging symbolic theater of the Wilders PVV party.

I’m just saying that saying or thinking things like „Kick them out of the EU. Good riddance!” would only result in an absolute dictatorship and the suffering of almost 10 million people in the long term.
I hate the hungarian government too, but kicking them out from the eu would only affect the people, and the same assholes would be sitting in throne, but instead of having some people at least trying to make them lean in the right direction, they would happily abuse their powers without the fear of losing anything

I see your point. Thanks for elaborating.

Having said that I'd like to add that one of my annoyances about Orban lately is the change regarding
Russians and Belarussians. Which means these people can easily go further into Europe. Unrelated to this Germany picked up border control again (Besides their border control with Czech Republic which they already had). We're living in a troubled world and in very difficult times.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240809085816/https://verfassungsblog.de/could-hungary-be-suspended-from-schengen/

You're maybe suggesting that there's some rigging of the elections going on or some bribe and corruption. It sounds like what happened in Turkey where Erdogan started to use money and goods to get his votes for example by donating food to the very poor each time after these poor people would attend a progressive lecture by the author of this book : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lose_a_Country

Are you blaming your economical misery completely on me and on the EU and not at all on Orban ?

Very good that The European Consortium For Political Research blog has a post about this.

My take on it :
- Is Hungary still a democracy ? Maybe not.
- Is Hungary a long time pain in the *ass within EU ? Yes.

Conclusion : Kick them out of the EU. Good riddance!

In the Netherlands, since 2023, there have been quite a lot of road blockades by XR (with hundreds to thousands of demonstrators) with no such penalties at all. From what I've read the activists in the UK were (rightfully so) determined to have their say in the court room while the judge sounded like a climate crisis denial person and got impatient. If I were a lawyer I would have made an attempt to get this judge dismissed on the case for not being objective and before they were ready for their verdict.

Article shows :

Correction 14 September 2024: An earlier version of this article put a figure on how many Kenyan workers would be allowed into Germany under the deal. The German interior ministry corrected this to state that the deal did not specify a figure.

370 people were arrested.
Article in Dutch with video :
https://nos.nl/artikel/2537112-alle-xr-klimaatdemonstranten-van-a12-gehaald

Here's another no tracking, no CAPTCHA copy of OP posted link :
https://neuters.de/world/europe/climate-protesters-block-dutch-highway-while-police-strike-2024-09-14/

It is not about high time to get Ellen Musk behind bars and give all their belongings to the poor ?

The cat sitter told Knight that Ted had just walked through the catflap. “I didn’t believe it at first,” Knight said. “I had to get her to FaceTime me live so that I could see that Ted was actually alive.”

Knight soon realised she had paid £130 to cremate someone else’s cat. When she later went to collect the ashes, she saw the urn had been labelled “Not Dead Ted”.

You’re not paying enough attention if you think Trump winning means “too bad the rest of the world will feel the consequences.” Germany just elected their first far right government since WWII,

There were elections in two states in the east of Germany last weekend. In one of them the far right party AfD gained most votes compared to others. In the other state they finished second largest. There is nothing decisive however. Other parties have been called to set up a firewall "Brandmauer" to prevent the AfD to govern.

France had a massive right wing that is now in the EU council, Austria… well they keep making shitty right wing choices, down into South America Argentina shifted right, and other countries continue to do so as well. We’re not special or alone in this.

Exactly. In the last few decades Austria , Turkey and Hungary were among the first to shift to far right party based governments in Europe. An interesting read is this book by Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran (Who fled the country) which is about Turkey going downhill from democracy to dictatorship. This book also reflects on Trump winning in 2016. At some point also Poland had a far-right government but the damage from that is slowly being repaired by a new government. By now among others Slovakia, Italy and the Netherlands have far-right government coalitions. Outside Europe there was Bolsonaro in Brazil. Still, Trump winning (legally or not) would be bad for the rest of the world, especially for Ukraine.

By contrast, she said, the unexpected victory of the French left in July’s snap parliamentary elections shows that “any time that the left stayed strong in its values, strong in its ambitions, we defeat the far right”.

The French structure for voting with two rounds allowed to play things in a tactical way by retreating some candidates in some areas to give voters more chance to vote successfully against the Le Pen party. This was not the case in Germany.