Problems arise in the east for the European Union and Russia’s refusal to stop its harsh war in Ukraine is just part of the problem.

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, who has long been the most pro -fascinating leader of the 27 -nation bloc, has intensified his rhetoric against the EU and Ukraine in the face of national elections next spring. He accuses European leaders of drawing up “war plans” against Moscow and pledges to veto any attempt to speed up Ukraine’s official integration talks.

In neighboring Slovakia, Europe’s main center -left political party is expected to dismiss Smerer, its subsidiary in the region. Smer’s leader, Prime Minister Robert Fitso, enraged his colleagues of Social Democrats, attending the celebrations of Niki Day in Beijing and Moscow and meeting presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile, in the Czech Republic on Sunday, another EU populist and Ukrainian critic, Andrey Babis, won the national parliamentary elections. The billionaire former prime minister aims to replace the pro -Western, pro -Puppet coalition led by conservative Prime Minister Petr Fia.

Andrey Babis, 71, who wore a Czech version of the Red Maga hat during the election campaign, has been overshadowed with a fraud case in the courts, and his party did not win the absolute majority. However, if it manages to form a government coalition, officials in Brussels expect it to be united with Orban and Fitso to prevent Ukraine assistance and oppose new pressures in Russia.

“This coincides with an unprecedented ideological alignment between Maga and these revolutionary EU Member States”said Alberto Alemanno, a Professor of Law and Policy of the European Union in Hec Paris, a French school.

‘The recent developments’said Alemanno, “They may further lean the EU’s political balance to the right, with Andrey Babis joining Victor Orban and Robert Fitso to oppose Ukraine’s support and test the EU’s domestic and democratic institutions.”

Even Lithuania – steadily indifferent, strongly democratic – saw mass protests on the weekend as artists took to the streets to demand the removal of a Minister of Culture from the Popular Party of Dawn of Nemuna, whose leader has been accused of.

The “Dawn of Nemuna” party joined the government following the resignation of Prime Minister Gintatas Paloukas this summer after corruption complaints, forcing his Social Democratic Party to find new coalition partners.

Normally, when the EU is in turmoil, it would turn to its fundamental pillars – Germany and France – for stability. But Germany is immersed in economic distress and France is in an economic and political crisis. Its last prime minister, Sebastian Lekorni, resigned Monday after less than a month in power.

“Obviously, the French political crisis is further complicated and delaying the EU’s action in its most immediate challenges.”said Alemanno.

In the Czech Republic, Babis and Ano’s right -wing party participated with the slogan “First the Czech Republic”. He promised to increase salaries and pensions – and end the program – led by the Czech Republic – which sends most of Europe’s artillery missiles in Ukraine, denouncing the outgoing government of the country because it gives “nothing to the Czech mothers”.

Babis has stated that they are not the weapons, but the way they get, this is the problem. He argues that the program is corrupt and that the Czech weapons traders make property. He wants the program to be transferred to NATO.

Babis and Ano party won only one -third of votes, much less than an absolute majority, and must form a coalition agreement to rule, which will be difficult. Most of the big parties seem to resist cooperation with him.

Babis said that talks have begun with the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party, which has called for the expulsion of Ukrainian immigrants, and the new party motorists in person, opposed to the EU’s “green agreement” to combat climate change. Both potential partners are deeply cautious about the European venture.

Prior to the vote, Czech President Petr Pavel said the question was whether the Czech Republic “remains steadily part of the West or moving away to the East”. After the election, he warned Babis that any new government must maintain “all the institutions of a democratic state” and move in a “pro -Western direction”.

Tabea Schaumann, an analyst at the European Policy Center, a think tank in Brussels, said Babis’ return could add another leader who would overturn the data to the European Council, who could paralyze the decision -making process. He said that much depends on who Babis will have in a coalition and that he expects that support for Ukraine will not stop, but will be “reassessed”.

After the elections, Babis said the Czech Republic would remain a credible partner in the EU and NATO, and rejected the concerns that it would undermine democratic institutions. “We criticize the European Union, but we do not want to destroy it”Ano’s deputy leader Karel Havlicek told the BBC. “We want to reform it.”

Babis boasted he had met with President Donald Trump many times. He is also a good friend of Orban, who on Monday said his country should not adopt the euro because the EU is “dissolving”.

Since 2010, Orban has been identified as a proponent of the “liberal Christian Republic”, attempting to prohibit the LOATKI pride parades, weakening the independence of justice and limiting the freedoms of the press and the European Community.

At a leaders’ summit in Denmark last week, Orban rejected a plan by European Council President Antonio Costa to launch accession talks with Ukraine. ‘I don’t agree’, said Orban. “Therefore, this plan is finished.”

With French President Emmanuel Macron seriously weakened inside and German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz not yet gaining the prestige and influence that Angela Merkel once had, other Heads of State and Government of the EU.

After Orban accused EU leaders For the development of “war plans” against Russia, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk fired Orban through a social media post: “It is Russia that started the war against Ukraine. This is what we have decided to live in times of war. And at such a time, the only question is with which place you are. “

Tusk faces challenges inside, with the election of conservative historian Carol Navrotsky in June as President of Poland. Supported by the right -wing law and justice of Poland and with the support of President Donald Trump, Navrotsky conducted a successful campaign called “Poland for the Poles”.

Navrotsky, who wants Germany to pay high compensation for Nazi crimes during World War II, has stated that he plans to combat illegal immigration, defend the Polish currency and limit the European Union’s powers. Navrotsky is strongly critical of Russia – recently called Putin “war criminal” – but he is skeptical of Ukraine, which he insists that he should not be allowed to join NATO or the European Union.

Orban and Fitso have resisted calls to stop the markets of Russian oil and gas, something Trump has requested as a prerequisite for imposing new sanctions on Moscow, since Trump failed to persuade Putin to agree on a ceasefire in the fire. Washington.

Fitso stated during a televised debate on Sunday that the target of his country “It is not the defeat of the Russian Federation. Our goal is to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible. These are Slavs who are killed by each other. War is not a solution. “

Added: “If the EU dedicated as much energy to peace as to the support of the war in Ukraine, the war could have ended long ago.”

William Booth is an international correspondent for the Washington Post based in London. Previously he was head of an office in London, Jerusalem, the city of Mexico, Los Angeles and Miami.