Orban thinks he can have a semi-fascist or modern fascist state within the European Union. (See here: bloomberg/news/2014-07-28/orban-says-he-seeks-to-end-liberal-democracy-in-hungary.html) The EU hasn’t put any impediment in the substantial steps he has taken towards this direction since 2010 by limiting civic rights, philosophical and religious liberties and workers’ rights by banning strikes and establishing forced labour of the unemployed (asbl-csce.be/journal/Ensemble83.pdf) The EU has in essence only blocked his move to reduce the independence of the Central Bank from the rest of the State. The EU has provoked a massive degradation of fundamental human rights in the Eurozone’s and the EU’s internal periphery by imposing measures of mass social destruction. It is providing full political support in governments applying these measures by engaging in mass political repression putting the rule of law into question like the two last Greek coalition governments (aedh.eu/plugins/fckeditor/userfiles/file/Communiqu%C3%A9s/PR_Unions%20&%20NGOs%20urge%20Parliament%20to%20scrutinise%20Greece%E2%80%99s%20Human%20Rights%20record.pdf). Since, the spectacular failure of its policy vis-à-vis the participation of a racist party in an Austrian government in 2000, Article 7 of the EU Treaty has never been mobilised against evident violations of fundamental rights by EU governments. Since its eastern enlargement in 2003, the EU has accepted outlawing left-wing parties and ideologies by equalizing communist ideology with Nazi and Fascist crimes against humanity. Now, it provides its full support to a new regime in Ukraine where extreme-right terror reigns in the streets but also within the house of Parliament. An elected (communist) party gets ousted by Parliament and bombings against Ukrainian citizens take place on a mass scale. The EU also provides full support to the Zionist regime in Israel applying apartheid, illegal military occupation and mass war crimes against the Palestinian and sometimes also Lebanese population. The EU has let the US illegally detain and torture kidnapped people in its soil. Poland has been recently condemned by the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg for that (Cases Al Nashiri [hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-146044] and Hudayn [hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-146047] against Poland) The EU moves to sanction Russia for purely geopolitical reasons, but uses rights violations by the Russian government as a legitimating factor for its action in the eyes of its own public opinion. At the same time, it doesn’t take any action against very similar violations in Turkey or even within its own borders. Extreme right parties grow within the EU imposing their agenda for an apartheid-like treatment of undocumented immigrants fleeing war zones, but also repressive approaches in all types of issues, as for instance the right to peaceful demonstration. Democratic control has been suppressed in favour of economic policy imperatives favouring a tiny oligarchy. The EU doesn’t seem to care about the involvement of people in decisions, promoting rather “efficiency of the decision-making system” as a legitimating factor. This approach begs the question: efficiency for whom? In this context, the endeavor of Orban doesn’t look like completely foolish. The convergence of Neoliberals and the Extreme Right is progressing. They can only be faced together as communicating vessels from an internationalist progressive movement claiming the primacy of civic, social and economic rights of people and the protection of the planet over capitalist profit, the promotion of collective forms of ownership and management of the economy and effective democratic control of State structures.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 08:07:30 +0000
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