Something has to give, and it’s either Hungary, the European Union, or a decadeslong partnership between the EU and 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific states that many say has had its day.
A top Hungarian official told reporters Thursday that it has no intention of lifting its opposition to the still-unsigned post-Cotonou Agreement between the EU and the Organisation of African, Caribbean, Pacific States, or OACPS, unless the deal is altered to address Budapest’s concerns about migration and sexual education.
Speaking on the margins of a meeting of EU national leaders, Balázs Orbán, a member of parliament and political director for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (no relation), said that the Hungarian government had told the European Commission for years that it had won office thanks to a conservative electorate which did not support “gender education to minors” or the promotion of migration.
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Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.
