{"id":181396,"date":"2016-07-07T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/07\/the-natives-are-restless-in-euro-land\/"},"modified":"2016-07-07T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:45:00","slug":"the-natives-are-restless-in-euro-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/07\/the-natives-are-restless-in-euro-land\/","title":{"rendered":"The Natives are Restless in Euro Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like a number of the periphery countries in the EU are unamused that decisions about a response to the Brexit are being made without consulting them<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Janos Lazar’s shock revelation on Thursday afternoon came as a growing number of EU members have joined a queue to back leaving the bloc after Britons voted to leave last week.<\/span>

<\/span>The Minister for the Prime Minister’s office, said: “I couldn’t vote whole-heartedly for Hungary to stay in the EU.<\/span>

<\/span>“Europe does not equal the EU. The EU is not able to protect the rights and values of Europe.”<\/span>

<\/span>He said it was his own opinion, and not the government’s.<\/span>

<\/span>Mr Lazar voted for Hungary to join the EU 12 years ago, but said he has been very disappointed ever since.<\/span>

<\/span>Mr Lazar added: “The Hungarian government is not planning on holding a referendum on leaving the EU.”<\/span>

<\/span>Hungary, which joined the EU in 2004, has become part of a core group of rebels, including Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, who threatened today to draw up their own plans for a less centralised EU.<\/span>

<\/span>Poland, which also joined in 2004, is leading the rebellion by nine former communist countries after accusing the old guard – Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands – of monopolising EU discussions after holding private talks in Berlin over the weekend.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, people like the head of the right wing Dutch Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, is calling for Holland to leave the EU<\/a>, but they have been (rightly) dismissed  as cranks.<\/p>\n

Now they are being viewed as a threat.<\/p>\n

The real danger of the long standing dysfunction of the EU is that it is increasingly empowering people like Wilders and granting legitimacy to their hatred.<\/p>\n

This is not going to end well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like a number of the periphery countries in the EU are unamused that decisions about a response to the Brexit are being made without consulting them: Janos Lazar’s shock revelation on Thursday afternoon came as a growing number of EU members have joined a queue to back leaving the bloc after Britons voted …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,984,1110,964,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-europe","category-european-union","category-foreign-relations","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}