Daniel Freund @daniel_freund@respublicae.eu

Last week, @derspiegel revealed how the Orban government is blackmailing European companies.

This week's communication strategy of the Orban government: Produce lots of glossy pictures with international companies.

Looks like an admission of guilt to me.

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Orban:
Stop financing Ukraine to end the war.

Much smarter way to safe money:
Stop financing Orban with EU funds to end corruption and authoritarianism in Hungary.
RT @EuroSandor: !!! Orbán's idea to end the war: stop financing Ukraine. He literary said this on national radio: "Ukraine cannot finance itself. The question is whether we will keep them up. if the US and the EU answers no to this question, then the war is over." Via https://444.hu/

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RT @violavoncramon: #Orban is a Russian trojan horse to weaken the EU unity. Yesterday, when we were condemning the execution of 🇺🇦POW by 🇷🇺, MFA #Szijjarto was making gas deals in Moscow.
Today, he is praising Lukashenko's murderous regime. People in Hungary deserve better.
https://news.yahoo.com/fuel-thirsty-hungary-praises-belarus-083400578.html

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RT @KimLaneLaw: Looks like the US is going to get serious about the threat that an autocracy poses to clubs of democracies: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/13/viktor-orbans-political-allies-in-hungary-in-sights-of-us-sanctions?CMP=share_btn_tw

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RT @zoltanspox: ❗️Ministry for Economic Development: Hungary to quit International Investment Bank.

Pursuant to measures announced on 12 April 2023, the United States of America placed three senior officials of the Budapest-based International Investment Bank on a sanctions list. The…

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RT @EuroSandor: One day after the US introduced sanctions against the Russian-funded International Investment Bank, Hungary decided to leave the institution - according to https://www.vg.hu/. Another proof that sanctions actually do work.

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RT @panyiszabolcs: Viktor Orbán's increasingly pro-Kremlin government escalates tensions with US diplomacy.

Hungary's government-controlled public media lashes out and threatens @USAmbHungary in an anonymous article, titled "Thank you, Ambassador! We will not forget you". The article includes a…

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However, a source close to DeSantis said that the Republican governor is “not very keen on the Orbán comparisons”.

LOL

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/12/viktor-orban-ron-desantis-trump-hungary?CMP=share_btn_tw

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While Szijjarto speaks, people close to his government are blackmailing European companies.

If he wants better press he might want to think about stopping it.
RT @panyiszabolcs: Astonishingly frank remarks by Orbán's foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, on the Hungarian government's relations with German corporations: "Mercedes, the Mercedes managers here, the German colleagues working at Mercedes are helping us so that German TV viewers don't only hear…

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Who paid for Mick - "Taiwan-is-part-of-China" - Wallace's trip to China?

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“We have concerns about the continued eagerness of Hungarian leaders to expand and deepen ties with the Russian Federation.”
- @USAmbHungary

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-treasury-sanction-hungary-based-international-investment-bank/

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Viktor Orban is a security risk for Europe.

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RT @b_novak: Facilitating sanctions evasion is not a good look.

The Orban government has bent over backwards FOR YEARS to ensure that entity's presence in Hungary despite numerous public and private rebukes from allies.

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RT @USAmbHungary: Today, the United States announced sanctions that will curb Russia’s access to the international financial system, including the Budapest-based, Russia-controlled International Investment Bank & three of its senior executives resident in Hungary.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1402

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RT @eublogo: The United States has placed the Budapest-based International Investment Bank (“spy bank”) and three of its senior officials on the sanctions list. VP Lászlóczki is the only Hungarian, the other two are Russians. Here is the official link:
https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230412

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Hungarian MoFA just keeps on shaking the wrong hands.
RT @hadhazyakos: Hungarian MoFA just arrived home from Moscow to welcome his colleague of #Belarus. The slogan is “we want peace”, but in fact he betrays our allies and works for the victory of Russia. #Hungary #WarInUkraine #Russia

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corruption ➡️ sanctions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-12/us-likely-to-sanction-individuals-in-eu-member-hungary

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RT @liliebayer: Hungary’s blocking of Sweden’s NATO bid is puzzling — and irritating — Western officials. 

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-nato-sweden-bid-accession-block-democracy-viktor-orban/

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Orban hat "hinter der Fassade der Demokratie eine autokratische Herrschaft zementiert. Es half dabei, dass er dafür sorgte, dass seine Freunde und Verbündeten von den Milliarden-Zuwendungen aus der EU profitierten und deshalb loyal zu ihm hielten."
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/20-jahre-nach-dem-referendum-was-hat-die-eu-mitgliedschaft-ungarns-gebracht-9625322.html

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