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Hungarian FM: ‘Age of danger’, ‘humanity lurching from crisis to crisis’
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Global security is at a post-Cold-War nadir and the world is enmeshed in danger, lurching from crisis to crisis, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, told a session of parliament on Wednesday.
A new world order is emerging following successive crises and the outcome is unknown, Szijjártó said, “but it’s almost certain Europe won’t have a stronger role than previously.”
Last year China’s GDP overtook that of the European Union, while the United States’ share of global GDP fell from 30 percent to 25 percent and EU’s dropped from 22 percent to 17 percent, the ministry quoted Szijjártó as saying. EU competitiveness is steadily decreasing, he added.
Also, Europe’s security environment is also more and more fragile, exacerbated by its “completely flawed” handling of the war in Ukraine, which, he said, globalised the conflict rather than isolating it. Growing arms deliveries prolong the war when talk should be of peace, he added.
Regarding migration, Szijjártó said Hungarian border guards now faced a new paradigm of criminal groups shooting at them from across the border with automatic weapons. “Brussels thinks we should let these people into Europe…” he said.
More accurately, Hungary is lurching from crisis to crisis. Hence, we are the only country in the European Union which is being ruled by decree, in a state of crisis, etc. for the past YEARS. Everyone else appears to be coping, more or less.
Perhaps it is time to have a commission assess our Politician’s COVID response, so we can share our superior, sovereign approach with the rest of Europe?