According to “dear Mikuláš” Dzurinda, Viktor Orbán is wrong

The former Slovak prime minister responded to the Hungarian prime minister’s letter yesterday.

“Dear Mikuláš, should we not finally act as a Member State on an equal footing with the West?” He was waiting for an answer Viktor Orban from the former Slovak prime minister in that writing, in which he called it a fact, discrimination against V4s in the European Union.

A Parameter now he writes Mikuláš Dzurinda reacted. European People’s Party think-thank, President of the Wilfried Martens Center a Central European Affairs Magazinehe said it was completely unnecessary to create new foci of power in the union.

There is no need to rival German-French cooperation, because these two countries carry on their shoulders the greatest responsibility on the continent.

For Dzurinda, Viktor Orbán’s idea “seems utterly unrealistic and harmful”.

This would fragment the European Union, which would be the ‘beginning of the end of the EU’. The idea is reminiscent of Russian and Chinese interests, namely the “paralysis and downsizing” of the European Union.

The former Slovak prime minister also refuted Viktor Orbán’s other statement that EU membership would be disadvantageous and unprofitable for Hungary and Slovakia as well.

This is simply a false statement

Dzurinda declared.

The Parameter asked economist Tamás Dudás, a lecturer at the University of Economics in Bratislava, about the debate among politicians. He said the argument that the rich west exploits the poor east because large foreign firms have created jobs, increased GDP, exports, tax revenues should be treated with caution.

If we did not produce one million cars a year in Slovakia, economic growth would not be so dynamic. However, this comes at a price. This is, for example, to take out profits.

The economist reminded him that Hungary is consciously building the image of itself as a tax haven for companies. Corporate income tax is one of the lowest in the EU.

Exported profits can be reduced even by increasing the tax rate

Added the expert, who actually thinks so

the problem is not that we are discriminated against, but that we are not competitive.

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