Open letter to Mr Josep Borell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and SecurityThis is probably your best chance to become part of history. And your support in this case is needed more than ever.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, acting as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agent in the European Union, is deliberately attempting to block the financial support for Ukraine from the European Union by invoking his veto rights.
Since Putin launched his unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine in February 2022 Orban consistently attempts to derail every decision of the EU to support Ukraine financially and militarily.
Lately, Orban openly declared to veto the 61 billion Euro financial and military aid package for Ukraine and also attempts to block the negotiation for Ukraine to join the EU, even though the rest of the 27 countries of the EU are unanimously willing to support Ukraine.
We must not let him succeed with his evil plan. It would be a historical catastrophe both for the people of Ukraine and later for the rest of Europe and the free world too.
Article 7 of the treaty of the European Union, “allows for the possibility of suspending European Union (EU) membership rights (such as voting rights in the Council of the European Union) if a country seriously and persistently breaches the principles on which the EU is founded”.
Currently, the only feasible way to support Ukraine, the defender of the free world is to deprive Orban of exercising his veto right through temporarily suspending his voting rights in the EU and the European Commission.
Please support the petition addressed to Josep Borrell Fontelles who is the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to put forward a motion for temporarily revoking the voting rights – and thereby the veto rights – from Orban and his government. Thereby enabling the rest of the 27 member states of the European Union to provide Ukraine with badly needed support against the Russian military aggression.
Viktor Orban and his puppet government are openly and actively attacking all the cornerstones of democracy, the foundation of the European Union, from where he and his regime not only accept but demand financial support, which he and his cronies partially steal and partially utilize for party and government propaganda against the European Union.
The financial and military aid to Ukraine to withstand the Russian military invasion is critical. It is indeed a question of life and death – daily – as we speak. If Ukraine fails, Europe and the rest of the free world will fail too. The appetite of the Russian Empire has no limit.
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Brussels, July 06 2020
Mr. Josep Borrell
HR/VP of the European Commission
Rue de la Loi 200 / Wetstraat 2001040 Brussels, Belgium
OBJECT: An urgent call for immediate action to put forward a motion for temporarily revoking the voting rights – and thereby the veto rights – from Orban and his government.
Dear High Representative Mr Borrell,
We are asking you to submit a proposal for a decision to the European Commission based on Article 7 of the Treaty on the European Union, in which the voting rights of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government (Hungary) are requested to be temporarily suspended.
Viktor Orbán announced that he will veto the European Union’s 61 billion Euro financial and military support for Ukraine, and that he intends to prevent Ukraine’s accession to the European Union from being put on the agenda of the European Commission.
The only possible and at the same time realistic option to prevent Viktor Orbán’s opposition to the European Union and his pro-Putin intentions is if you request the temporary suspension of the Hungarian government’s right to vote on the grounds that Viktor Orbán and his government significantly and continuously violate the democratic principles on which the EU is based.
You, as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, are entitled to do so by Article 7 of the Treaty on the European Union.
Under the Treaty of the European Union, a proposal for a decision in the European Commission can only be accepted with the unanimous support of the member countries. There is a real and immediate danger of Viktor Orbán using his right of veto to prevent the acceptance of his critically important aid to Ukraine, as he has done before.
If, in the absence of support from the European Union, Ukraine cannot repel Russian military aggression, it would have catastrophic consequences not only for Ukraine, but in the longer term for the whole of Europe, and certainly for many other countries in the free world.
If Ukraine bleeds out and fails to defeat Putin’s war machine, some eastern members of the European Union will be in immediate and direct danger, and the union and other NATO member states would be forced to spend huge sums to rapidly increase their military potential, which could lead to political instability in many member states.
Millions of tax-paying citizens of the European Union watch with shock and indignation as Viktor Orbán, who is destroying Hungary’s democratic institutions to the hilt, carries out increasingly unscrupulous open propaganda against the democratic core values, institutions, and leaders of the EU, while he and his government receive a significant portion of the billions of Euros disbursed to Hungary by the European Union for 13 years been using it
– for overt and covert government propaganda,
– for the financial swindling of the entrepreneurial layer politically and financially connected to them,
– to finance EU, national, and local media campaigns aimed at discrediting political opponents,
– for indirect or direct interference in the political internal affairs of some EU member states.
Meanwhile, the Hungarian mass media controlled by Orbán is no longer just trying to spread the impression that Orbán has the greatest legitimacy and power among EU politicians, but that Orbán has more legitimacy and power than the other 27 member states of the Union combined.
Given the above, the time seems to have arrived when Orbán should be informed that, as far as the EU is concerned, “enough is enough”.
I respectfully ask you to take the necessary steps in consideration of the above to ensure
- the financial and military support for Ukraine,
- the security of the member states of the European Union, and
- the preservation of the authority of the leading bodies of the European Union.
Yours faithfully