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Spengler: Chutzpah in Strasbourg
[PJMedia] Chutzpah, an Aramaic word for unbridled effrontery, came to America via Yiddish. It's the man who enters a revolving door after you and comes out first. It's the fellow who murdered his parents and asks for clemency because he's an orphan. And now it's the backers of an unelected supranational European government casting a vote of censure against Hungary....The unelected European Commission, with members appointed by governments that represent a minority of their voters, ordered Hungary to accept its quota of so-called refugees, and Hungary refused. Last year it ordered Poland to rescind a judicial reform that gives the elected legislature a modicum of authority over appointed judges, many of whom retain lifetime appointments from the Communist era. Poland and Hungary refused the imperial decree from the bureaucrats of Brussels, and for this, both countries faced the censure of the European Parliament. The European Parliament vote also sends a message to President Trump, who has made clear his disapproval of Europe's migration policy, as well as its failure to fund its own defense. By contrast, the Trump administration has a friend in Orban, as the New York Times complained last month. It also reflects European animosity toward Israel, which has an ally in the Orban government. Above all, the vote expresses the rancor of an unpopular European elite whose hold on power is tenuous, and for whom Mr. Orban's success appears as a portent of doom. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-14 |
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