Orban's Dangerous Game in the Balkans: Budapest Funds Attempt to Destroy BiH

Viktor Orban
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Budapest is financing an attempt to destroy Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Brussels, meanwhile, is only flooding the Balkans with money and not resisting nationalists. writes German Welt.

Under the title "Orban's Dangerous Game in the Western Balkans", The daily says that Hungary, as a member of the EU and NATO, supports the aspirations for the secession of the Bosnian Serbs, and that the help in those efforts comes from Brussels.

Dodik and Orban at a meeting in Budapest in 2019 / photo: EPA / EFE

The paper recalls Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's visit to Banja Luka last November and a statement issued at the time in Republika Srpska that they "enjoy full support from Prime Minister Orban and the state of Hungary - support for secession from Bosnia." and Herzegovina. "reports Deutsche Welle.

Despite the "crisis threatening both NATO and the EU", the text assessed that "these concerns do not seem to have any role in Budapest". Orban will block any attempt by the European Union to impose sanctions on (Milorad) Dodik. And more than that - Hungary has made 100m euros in aid available to Republika Srpska.

The German newspaper also quoted BiH analyst Jasmin Mujanovic as saying that "Budapest is financing an attempt to destroy Bosnia and Herzegovina" and quoting his conclusion that Orban was "following his own idea of ​​a 'Christian Europe'." . Dodik is a link in the chain of illiberal regimes that Orban wants to accept in the European Union as an ally in his own illiberal coalition - and then it will be Serbia's turn to accept and ally in the EU.

Welt also questions the role of EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhei, who is of "Hungarian descent and a loyal follower of Orban".

"His role is to oblige him to represent the common interests of the Union, not the country of origin." "But there are doubts about that," the German newspaper said.

The paper also recalls the EU document "Which shows the 'extraordinary level' of co-ordination between Varjeji and the secessionists in Republika Srpska," written before the disputed vote in the RS parliament. the law on unilateral withdrawal from state institutions for a period of six months " , states the document that Welt states he owns.

The daily quotes a group of MEPs as calling for an investigation into Varhei's role, saying, among other things, that "if there is any doubt about the European Commission's impartiality and neutrality, then the sensitive geopolitical balance is at stake".

Welt also accuses Brussels of "solving the problems in the Balkans exclusively with money and giving no resistance to the nationalists", adding that the countries in the region; from 2014 to 2020 alone, they received about 700 million euros for reforms - "without concrete progress, as shown by the latest report of the European Union Audit Office".

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