EU declares itself a Dictatorship: ‘We will DESTROY all EU states that are NOT Liberal!’

Manfred Weber, the Leader of the European People’s Party (EPP), discussed the European Union’s plan to blackmail member states that don’t toe the bloc’s line on issues like migration, such as Hungary and Poland. This will be done by making their share of the EU’s budget contingent on how well they meet the bloc’s vague “rule of law” standards, Weber says, especially now that many countries have been hit hard by the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown.

Weber, who leads the European Parliament’s largest party, made the remarks in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung last week.

The EU is currently in talks to prepare its next seven-year budget, which will come into effect in 2021. Weber discussed the proposal by Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s President, to make the allocation of each member state’s share of the budget, as well as its share of aid to deal with the effects of the pandemic, contingent on the “state of the rule of law” in each country.

This threat is clearly aimed at Hungary and Poland in particular, the two EU member states that have taken a hard line on illegal migration and which have also come under fire for alleged corruption in their judiciaries. The EU has invoked Article 7 of its Treaty against both countries in recent years, which can result in a suspension of a member states’ rights within the bloc. Both are still being investigated under the procedure.

Weber suggested that the EU needs to strengthen its control over its budget “in order to better fight corruption.” He said that given that many member states will be using EU funds to deal with the economic fallout from the pandemic, it is important that “strict conditions” must be attached to such aid.

Weber mentioned Hungary and Poland specifically, saying that it is “unsurprising” that the two countries are looking to prevent the “rule of law” requirement from being attached to the money. “Europe is not an ATM, but a community of values,” he said.

On Friday, the EU and the heads of the member states will begin discussing the 1.8 trillion euro budget for 2021-2027 for the first time: 1.1 trillion for the budget and 750 billion euros in aid to deal with the economic crisis resulting from the pandemic. Whether the pandemic aid will be distributed in the form of loans or in bonds is still being hotly contested. Weber’s EPP will play a crucial role in these negotiations.

The EPP has made its displeasure with Hungary in particular known on several occasions. The EPP’s current President, Donald Tusk, called for Hungary to be expelled from the party in March due to concern over the country’s controversial Coronavirus Protection Law, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.

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