Croatia's President slams EU over "United States of Europe" approach to Hungary !!!

Croatia’s president said that efforts by the European Union to uphold democratic standards in member countries threatened to tear the bloc apart, and condemned EU efforts to financially penalise Hungary for its alleged breaches of rule of law standards.

The EU shouldn’t become, he said, a “United States of Europe,” adding that EU procedures against Hungary, which have frozen billions of euros in funding to Budapest over corruption and rule of law concerns, threatened to destroy the 27-member bloc.

“This sort of approach (between the EU and Hungary) is deeply irritating,” he said, warning that “today it is Hungary, tomorrow it will be some bigger country that will need to be ’taught a lesson.’”

“We managed to bring Russia and China closer together. In whose interest is this? All those questions will have to be answered to me, especially by those who are making those decisions in my name. I demand an answer.”

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