Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2017 (29. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

2017-03-31 / 13. szám

In Trump’s America, Hungary Finds a Friendlier Partner Hungary’s government built a fence along its southern border, boasts about making Europe great again and says politi­cal correctness can’t interfere with fighting terrorism. It’s a country made for an alliance with President Donald Trump. And its top dip­lomat is excitedly meeting officials across Washington this week to discuss closer political, economic and military coopera­tion, and not the U.S. charges of demo­cratic backsliding in Hungary that largely defined the relationship in recent years. “These critics have basically disappeared since the new president has taken office,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with The Associated Press. Hungary is among the Central European countries to have embraced Trump’s message, which in some ways echoes that of its own head of government: Prime Minsiter Viktor Orbán. Unlike Washington’s older European allies that have chafed at Trump’s overtures to Russia and questioning of NATO, leaders in Poland, the Czech Republic and elsewhere have endorsed elements of Trump’s “America First” as U.S. ver­sions of their own. Speaking to the AP after attending a U.S.-hosted meeting of the 68-nation coalition fighting the Islamic State group, Szijjarto lamented what he called a “very bad” U.S.-Hungarian political relationship under Pres­ident Barack Obama. Whereas American diplomats regularly chided Hungary’s government over allegations of shrinking media freedom, and declining judicial and electoral independence, he said the situation has improved since Trump made clear the “export of democracy” was no longer a focus of U.S. foreign policy. “We are excited to work together,” Szijjarto said, recounting positive phone conversations he had with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and between Trump and Orbán last November. It’s unclear how dramatic Trump’s shift in foreign policy will end up, but such assessments have been common internationally over the new administration’s early days, with some governments and advocacy groups fearing a U.S. withdrawal from its traditional role as a human rights champion. In China last week, Tillerson avoided the topic entirely. Elsewhere, a lack of senior diplomats in place and the administration’s prioritization of the anti-Islamic State fight have reinforced, for some Western diplomats, their sense that the U.S, is relegating democracy, governance and the rule of law to a lower standing on the list of foreign policy priorities. With Hungary, a U.S. official disputed that account. The U.S. remains troubled by the government’s expanding control over civil society and routinely raises concerns in diplomatic interactions, said the offi­cial, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on such discussions and demanded anonymity. Hungary also has been criticized for its tough approach to the refugee crisis, even using water cannons and tear gas on migrants in a Europe overrun by the crisis in 2015. Szijjarto on Wednesday emphasized Hungary’s commonality with Trump’s U.S. Although some nations hoped to hear more at the anti-IS conference about the U.S. administration’s new direction, Szijjarto said Hungary was “enthusiastic” about a Trump strategy that aims to “not only to fight against ISIS, but totally eliminate ISIS.” He said Hungary would help by sending 50 additional troops to Iraq, taking its force there to 200. The mandate is now for them to stay through the end of 2019, instead of leaving in December. While Hungary is among the lowest contributors to NATO, Szijjarto also said his government will con­sider accelerating its current, 10-year plan to meet the alliance’s military spending requirement of 2 percent of GDP — a central Trump demand. “We absolutely agree with your president that Europe has to do more,” he said. “We’ll absolutely comply with the expectations, which are fair.” But Szijjarto held out hope for Trump-assisted changes benefi­cial to his country. One could be an end to some of the economic sanctions the U.S. and European Union began imposing on Russia after its 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. Trump had raised such a possibility as a candidate. His administration so far has supported maintaining the penalties, missoulian.com Rep. Andy Harris, Co-Chair Of the Hungarian Caucus Helped to Defeat Trump’s Health Bill It was President Trump’s first major political defeat. Last week GOP leaders yanked their bill to repeal “Obamacare” off the House floor when it became clear it would fail. House Speaker Paul Ryan told President Trump that he was unable to convince fellow republicans and the bill would not pass. The Free­dom Caucus, a group of influential conservative congressman played a pivotal role in defeating Trump’s proposal. Rep. Andy Harris is a key republican and a member of the Freedom Caucus. He is a Navy veteran and also a medical doctor who understood the issues with the President’s repeal plan, which was dubbed by the conservatives as “Obamacare Light.” As a long-time opponent of Obam­acare he felt that Trump’s bill did not go far enough and refused it. I might add, that Rep. Harris’s name had been floated as a possible director of the National Institutes of Health, and he also met several times face to face with the President. Harris was elected first in 2010 in Maryland’s 1st district and last November he was solidly behind Trump as his party’s nominee for President. Later he criticized Trump’s lewd comments on the leaked Access Hollywood tape. The Congressman was born in the US, his father came to the country after World War II. The family hails from Miskolc, North­­em-Hungary; his mother has Ukrainian roots. The Catholic lawmaker does not speak Hungarian and became the co-chair of the Hungarian Congressional Caucus in 2013. hungarianfreepress.com The English Page of the Hírlap can serve as a bridge between the non-Hungarian-speak­­|ing members of the fam­ily and the community. |Use it to bring people to Igether! Subscribe to the Hírlap! Advertise your business in the Hírlap! 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