Earlier this month, German Green MEP Daniel Freund, who has made a name for himself by obsessively attacking Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, took to X over the U.S. President Trump’s cancellation of foreign aid.
“In Oct 2024 I spoke with @USAID at their DC HQ. They told me they were funding rule of law, anticorruption and pro-democracy programs in Hungary with several million dollars per year,” Freund posted, adding, “With this money gone for NGOs, guess who’s gonna benefit?”
He then calls on Brussels to “fill the gap,” especially as there can be no letup in the witch hunt against Hungary.
“It should be the duty of EU to fill this funding gap. It is in our very own interest because if no-one checks on corruption in Hungary anymore, Orbán and his cronies will steal more and more EU funds.”
Freund spends little time on the crises facing his own country, including mass migration, migrant crime, migrant welfare crisis, doubling of sexual crimes (majority by foreigners), a housing crisis, an elderly care crisis, economic stagnation, bankruptcies, layoffs, and even an issue close to Freund’s heart, disastrous green policies.
Of course, there are the non-stop terror attacks you can read about here, here, here, here, and here, to list just a few recent stories. Notably, Hungary is remarkably short of terror attacks.
Instead, all Freund has to say ahead of Germany’s federal elections, with polls increasingly favoring the conservative, anti-migration AfD party is that he is simply happy Hungary is not receiving the money it is owed from Brussels:
“Still proud that the EU has frozen billions of euros for the corrupt Orbán regime.”
Still proud that the EU has frozen billions of euros for the corrupt Orbán regime.
— Daniel Freund (@daniel_freund) February 19, 2025
Fidesz MEP András László replied: “It’s so awkward that there are green politicians who care more about Hungary than the judgement to be brought upon them by German voters…”
It's so awkward that there are green politicians who care more about Hungary than the judgement to be brought upon them by German voters…
— András LÁSZLÓ MEP(@laszloan) February 19, 2025
As for other German politicians? They seem intent on doubling down on the country’s “Welcome culture,” no matter the violence, deaths, and budgetary woes that migration has brought staring them in their face.
The same thing happened months ago after the Manheim terror attack.
Germans head to the polls on Feb. 23.
