“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”—Emma Goldman
The name of a quiet medieval town in Hungary—Visegrad—has in recent times become synonymous with the word “rebellion” in Brussels.
The Visegrad Group, also known as the Visegrad Four, or V4, is a cultural and political alliance of four central European states, comprising, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, for the purpose of furthering their European integration, as well as for advancing military, economic and energy cooperation with each other. They have always been part of a single civilization sharing cultural and intellectual values and common roots in diverse religious traditions, which they wish to preserve and further strengthen. They have now emerged as the greatest modern defenders of European civilisation by undertaking to deploy armed forces to protect their borders.
The Visegrad Four have mounted their fiercest revolt against the European Union in the matter of the European compulsory allotment of refugees for resettlement throughout the Schengen Agreement, a passport-free arrangement involving most of the EU states.
Now these nations are increasingly consolidating as a bloc and challenging the liberal-internationalist leadership of the European Union, which had traditionally been dominated by Western countries. The Visegrád bloc is increasingly articulating an alternative “conservative” vision of what Europe should be.
The Brexit vote was a shock to the EU, and while it reinforced the V4’s presence, it offered them an opportunity to press for their own interests in Europe. Gradually, Visegrád governments are becoming policy-shapers rather than policy-recipients.
The EU’s inability to handle the immigration crisis, combined with a tilt in the power structure within the union after the Brexit vote and increasingly bellicose and Eurosceptic leaders in Hungary and Poland, has thrust the group to the fore.
Now the EU seeks to force these unlawful immigrants compulsorily on member states in what they call “redistribution,” with heavy fines for non-compliance. This is the sort of punitive action that only occupation governments impose on defeated nations. (Council Decision (EU) 2015/1523, supra.) Denmark and the ex-EU member, the United Kingdom, are not participating in this decision.
In spite of all, the EU has no right to ‘blackmail’ these countries!
The Visegrad leaders have made their voices heard on the EU stage.
Czech Republic
The Czech government opposes an EU quota system to redistribute asylum seekers. “Our country simply cannot afford to risk terrorist attacks like those that occurred in France and Germany. By accepting migrants, we would create fertile ground for barbaric attacks,” Jiri Ovcacek said. The president does not agree with any acceptance of migrants in the Czech territory. How can anybody blame them?
Poland
Poland’s minister of justice delivered a scathing response to European Union bureaucrats who are attempting to bully the staunchly anti-migrant country as the battle over ‘refugee resettlement’ quotas rages on.
“I’d like to ask Mr. Timmermans to stop speaking with such insolence and arrogance about Poland, and to Poles, and to the Polish authorities because we deserve respect.”
“We expect and demand respect.”Polish Minister of Justice Zbiegniew Ziobroretorted.
Forget that, my friend, you cannot get anything better than that from the arrogant European Union! It is evident that the arrogance of Barroso has been inherited and is seeping through the ranks of the whole European Union.
Slovakia
Slovakia, with the support of other eastern member states, went to the European court to block the EU decision to relocate 120,000 Syrian and other asylum seekers. EU judges ruled that even those countries that voted against the plan were bound by law to implement the quota scheme. The Slovak people, in their massive uprising against the usurpation of their homeland, shouted: “Slovakia for the Slovaks” and to the immigrants: “Avoid our country,” while burning the EU flag.
Hungary
“Hungary has violated the EU’s basic values and should be expelled from the Union,” Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn stated also the accusation. “Hungary has attacked the independence of the judiciary.”
But the Maltese government has been playing around with the judiciary for years and nobody said anything, or even noted. No need to sing you a lullaby to go back to sleep, I suppose. Mr. Asselborn! I guess you never woke up!
But Croatia has likewise refused access and passage to illegal immigrants.
EU officials have suggested engaging with the “more reasonable” elements within the V4—Slovakia and the Czech Republic—to separate them from Poland and Hungary whenever possible. The EU should be ashamed of its ‘divide and rule’ policy!
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has warned that the EU is targeting Poland as a warning to all others who might follow their lead in standing up to the tyrannical superstate. Haven’t we all seen this before . . . in the case of Brexit??
If anyone still entertains any doubts about the profoundly undemocratic, totalitarian, authoritarian and arrogant nature of the European Union, one has only to note the treatment that the EU is dishing out against Britain following its decision to quit the EU. This was one of the main reasons that made the British just vote ‘leave’.
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“Eritrean migrants warn Germans their days are numbered.”
Austria Police: Dye blonde hair dark and avoid travelling on public transport at night to avoid being attacked by nonwhite invader “refugees.”These are a massive disgusting insults.
Israel will forcibly deport all non-Jewish illegal aliens after court ruling. “We don’t want to become Greece. That’s the monster in the corner that you don’t want to become.”
“Ninety percent of all nonwhite invaders entering Europe are using criminal networks and forged documents,”a joint Europol-Interpol report has found.
“What our politicians are giving away now, took over a thousand years to build.”
Do you want this? Not so fast! Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia—so often lumped together in a Euroskeptic club, hostile to closer EU integration, wary of domination by big Western European countries like Germany, and wary of accepting migrants, especially Muslims, don’t want it! ‘No refugees, No terror,’ they sustain. Definitely also the Austrians really are not so craven and brow-beaten as to accept this.
Why do only these sane man “get it”? What the heck is really going on? Why are so many fools bent on destroying their own nations? It cannot be just stupidity, no one can be actually THAT stupid. There is an agenda somewhere for some nefarious reason!
Curiously, it is evident that in our tiny, or rather miniscule, island of Malta, none seem to think or bother where this issue is leading us, as no government proves to have the nerve to inform and protect our people from this impending catastrophe. Can Malta be even certain whether it could meet its obligations even if it wanted to? The amount, according to the quota for Malta, would be considerably higher always dependent on the total influx of illegal immigrants entering Europe. Are we supposed to turn our citizens’ brains into pink balloons? Are we to be robbed of our identities and memories and to be stunted and rendered devoid of political reflection? None shouted, “Hands off Malta!” Greece is Europe’s dumping ground for illegal immigrants and Malta has become a trash can!
Too bad the rest of the world didn’t get the message. How dare do these people use common sense! Don’t they know it’s against EU policy to look after your people and make good decisions! They’ll be invaded by the European army to prevent this common sense tool from spreading to other EU figureheads, lest they become leaders and find the guts and the courage to stand up.
But it is the political trajectory of the Visegrad Four that could prove the European Union’s undoing!
Merkel invited the Muslim world to Germany. She then overrode the EU’s requirement for asylum application in country of entry. She was not authorised to take such a step. Her action has been ruled unlawful by a German court
The basic problem is that you can’t send refugees rescued in the Mediterranean back to Libya. They can only be brought to a safe haven. Attempts by Germany to find refuge for them in Tunisia or Egypt were rejected by those countries. And Libya hasn’t been safe since the days when European bombs helped to topple Gaddafi’s regime, nullifying the treaty on refugees which was similar to the one between the EU and Turkey. Western Europe opened the door to this mess and is now powerless to close it again.”
In the first place, do the countries of the Visegrad Group bear any responsibility for the economic backwardness and exploitation which the underdeveloped and developing countries inherited and which is still prevailing by their colonial past?
Secondly, have these countries ever waged or are waging war in these poor countries, or perhaps instigated internal conflict for selfish ends, as the other Western countries are constantly doing?
Thirdly, they have never practiced nor do they practice any economic exploitation of any countries whatsoever.
But that is another sorrowful story, which surely must be tackled in full later. At least, suffice it to say that African farmers are being condemned into prolonged poverty by EU trade rules and Africa is being starved into submission by its historical trading partners, first and foremost, the European Union.
It is not clear, considering all, how Brussels will be able to hypocritically force those countries to take in refugees against their will.
Some EU members, including Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain, France and the initially welcoming Denmark and Sweden, have reacted by practically suspending the Schengen Agreement and reinstating border controls
Perhaps it would be more beneficial for them if the Visegrad nations, together with Austria and other east/central Europe states, would split off from the EU and form their own separate free trade zone.
Finally, please permit me to quote the noble thought expressed by the illustrious Thomas Paine; “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace”, which I humbly try to emulate.
“If you truly want to be respected by people, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”—Michael Bassey Johnson
Joseph M. Cachia resides in Malta and is a freelance journalist Contact him at jmcachia@maltanet.net.
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In defence of the Visegrad Group
Posted on March 14, 2018 by Joseph M. Cachia
The name of a quiet medieval town in Hungary—Visegrad—has in recent times become synonymous with the word “rebellion” in Brussels.
The Visegrad Group, also known as the Visegrad Four, or V4, is a cultural and political alliance of four central European states, comprising, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, for the purpose of furthering their European integration, as well as for advancing military, economic and energy cooperation with each other. They have always been part of a single civilization sharing cultural and intellectual values and common roots in diverse religious traditions, which they wish to preserve and further strengthen. They have now emerged as the greatest modern defenders of European civilisation by undertaking to deploy armed forces to protect their borders.
The Visegrad Four have mounted their fiercest revolt against the European Union in the matter of the European compulsory allotment of refugees for resettlement throughout the Schengen Agreement, a passport-free arrangement involving most of the EU states.
Now these nations are increasingly consolidating as a bloc and challenging the liberal-internationalist leadership of the European Union, which had traditionally been dominated by Western countries. The Visegrád bloc is increasingly articulating an alternative “conservative” vision of what Europe should be.
The Brexit vote was a shock to the EU, and while it reinforced the V4’s presence, it offered them an opportunity to press for their own interests in Europe. Gradually, Visegrád governments are becoming policy-shapers rather than policy-recipients.
The EU’s inability to handle the immigration crisis, combined with a tilt in the power structure within the union after the Brexit vote and increasingly bellicose and Eurosceptic leaders in Hungary and Poland, has thrust the group to the fore.
Now the EU seeks to force these unlawful immigrants compulsorily on member states in what they call “redistribution,” with heavy fines for non-compliance. This is the sort of punitive action that only occupation governments impose on defeated nations. (Council Decision (EU) 2015/1523, supra.) Denmark and the ex-EU member, the United Kingdom, are not participating in this decision.
In spite of all, the EU has no right to ‘blackmail’ these countries!
The Visegrad leaders have made their voices heard on the EU stage.
Czech Republic
The Czech government opposes an EU quota system to redistribute asylum seekers. “Our country simply cannot afford to risk terrorist attacks like those that occurred in France and Germany. By accepting migrants, we would create fertile ground for barbaric attacks,” Jiri Ovcacek said. The president does not agree with any acceptance of migrants in the Czech territory. How can anybody blame them?
Poland
Poland’s minister of justice delivered a scathing response to European Union bureaucrats who are attempting to bully the staunchly anti-migrant country as the battle over ‘refugee resettlement’ quotas rages on.
“I’d like to ask Mr. Timmermans to stop speaking with such insolence and arrogance about Poland, and to Poles, and to the Polish authorities because we deserve respect.”
“We expect and demand respect.” Polish Minister of Justice Zbiegniew Ziobro retorted.
Forget that, my friend, you cannot get anything better than that from the arrogant European Union! It is evident that the arrogance of Barroso has been inherited and is seeping through the ranks of the whole European Union.
Slovakia
Slovakia, with the support of other eastern member states, went to the European court to block the EU decision to relocate 120,000 Syrian and other asylum seekers. EU judges ruled that even those countries that voted against the plan were bound by law to implement the quota scheme. The Slovak people, in their massive uprising against the usurpation of their homeland, shouted: “Slovakia for the Slovaks” and to the immigrants: “Avoid our country,” while burning the EU flag.
Hungary
“Hungary has violated the EU’s basic values and should be expelled from the Union,” Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn stated also the accusation. “Hungary has attacked the independence of the judiciary.”
But the Maltese government has been playing around with the judiciary for years and nobody said anything, or even noted. No need to sing you a lullaby to go back to sleep, I suppose. Mr. Asselborn! I guess you never woke up!
But Croatia has likewise refused access and passage to illegal immigrants.
EU officials have suggested engaging with the “more reasonable” elements within the V4—Slovakia and the Czech Republic—to separate them from Poland and Hungary whenever possible. The EU should be ashamed of its ‘divide and rule’ policy!
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has warned that the EU is targeting Poland as a warning to all others who might follow their lead in standing up to the tyrannical superstate. Haven’t we all seen this before . . . in the case of Brexit??
If anyone still entertains any doubts about the profoundly undemocratic, totalitarian, authoritarian and arrogant nature of the European Union, one has only to note the treatment that the EU is dishing out against Britain following its decision to quit the EU. This was one of the main reasons that made the British just vote ‘leave’.
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“Eritrean migrants warn Germans their days are numbered.”
Austria Police: Dye blonde hair dark and avoid travelling on public transport at night to avoid being attacked by nonwhite invader “refugees.” These are a massive disgusting insults.
Israel will forcibly deport all non-Jewish illegal aliens after court ruling. “We don’t want to become Greece. That’s the monster in the corner that you don’t want to become.”
“Ninety percent of all nonwhite invaders entering Europe are using criminal networks and forged documents,” a joint Europol-Interpol report has found.
“What our politicians are giving away now, took over a thousand years to build.”
Do you want this? Not so fast! Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia—so often lumped together in a Euroskeptic club, hostile to closer EU integration, wary of domination by big Western European countries like Germany, and wary of accepting migrants, especially Muslims, don’t want it! ‘No refugees, No terror,’ they sustain. Definitely also the Austrians really are not so craven and brow-beaten as to accept this.
Why do only these sane man “get it”? What the heck is really going on? Why are so many fools bent on destroying their own nations? It cannot be just stupidity, no one can be actually THAT stupid. There is an agenda somewhere for some nefarious reason!
Curiously, it is evident that in our tiny, or rather miniscule, island of Malta, none seem to think or bother where this issue is leading us, as no government proves to have the nerve to inform and protect our people from this impending catastrophe. Can Malta be even certain whether it could meet its obligations even if it wanted to? The amount, according to the quota for Malta, would be considerably higher always dependent on the total influx of illegal immigrants entering Europe. Are we supposed to turn our citizens’ brains into pink balloons? Are we to be robbed of our identities and memories and to be stunted and rendered devoid of political reflection? None shouted, “Hands off Malta!” Greece is Europe’s dumping ground for illegal immigrants and Malta has become a trash can!
Too bad the rest of the world didn’t get the message. How dare do these people use common sense! Don’t they know it’s against EU policy to look after your people and make good decisions! They’ll be invaded by the European army to prevent this common sense tool from spreading to other EU figureheads, lest they become leaders and find the guts and the courage to stand up.
But it is the political trajectory of the Visegrad Four that could prove the European Union’s undoing!
Merkel invited the Muslim world to Germany. She then overrode the EU’s requirement for asylum application in country of entry. She was not authorised to take such a step. Her action has been ruled unlawful by a German court
The basic problem is that you can’t send refugees rescued in the Mediterranean back to Libya. They can only be brought to a safe haven. Attempts by Germany to find refuge for them in Tunisia or Egypt were rejected by those countries. And Libya hasn’t been safe since the days when European bombs helped to topple Gaddafi’s regime, nullifying the treaty on refugees which was similar to the one between the EU and Turkey. Western Europe opened the door to this mess and is now powerless to close it again.”
In the first place, do the countries of the Visegrad Group bear any responsibility for the economic backwardness and exploitation which the underdeveloped and developing countries inherited and which is still prevailing by their colonial past?
Secondly, have these countries ever waged or are waging war in these poor countries, or perhaps instigated internal conflict for selfish ends, as the other Western countries are constantly doing?
Thirdly, they have never practiced nor do they practice any economic exploitation of any countries whatsoever.
But that is another sorrowful story, which surely must be tackled in full later. At least, suffice it to say that African farmers are being condemned into prolonged poverty by EU trade rules and Africa is being starved into submission by its historical trading partners, first and foremost, the European Union.
It is not clear, considering all, how Brussels will be able to hypocritically force those countries to take in refugees against their will.
Some EU members, including Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain, France and the initially welcoming Denmark and Sweden, have reacted by practically suspending the Schengen Agreement and reinstating border controls
Perhaps it would be more beneficial for them if the Visegrad nations, together with Austria and other east/central Europe states, would split off from the EU and form their own separate free trade zone.
Finally, please permit me to quote the noble thought expressed by the illustrious Thomas Paine; “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace”, which I humbly try to emulate.
Joseph M. Cachia resides in Malta and is a freelance journalist Contact him at jmcachia@maltanet.net.