Last year, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, called two-speed Europe
“one of the most abhorrent ideas.” His Polish counterpart, Mateusz
Morawiecki, agreed. “We don’t want a union of two speeds,” he told
Poland’s parliament in December 2017. “We do not agree to Europe being
divided into better ones and worse ones, where stronger nations are
favored. That’s not right.”
Talk about chutzpah. If Hungary and Poland are relegated
today to the European Union’s periphery, they have nobody to blame but
Orbán and Morawiecki. Through their assault on the rule of law at home, rejection of any semblance of compromise over asylum policies and lack of interest in joining the common European currency, the two countries have cemented their place outside of the EU’s core.
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