– Sovereignty is the Hungarian state’s ability to act, the protection of its ability to act – emphasized the Mandarin Tamás Lánczi in the broadcast of his reaction podcast show recorded in Tusványos. However, according to the president of the Sovereignty Protection Office, there is no such thing as absolute sovereignty, and later in the conversation he also touched on the fact that it really does cause conceptual confusion as to who it should be protected from.
According to him, the range of actors has changed, in the past one state usually represented another state, but new actors have joined the states: economic actors and actors who call themselves actors of civil life.
They are the ones who try to undermine and steal the sovereignty of countries
– stressed the head of the office, who says that it doesn’t matter where these attempts to influence come from, they must be revealed.
According to András Schiffer, the concept of sovereignty should be removed from the “mud of current politics”. According to him, when it comes to the sovereignty of a country, we are also talking about the sovereignty of a community. The lawyer stated:
Our sovereignty does not need to be defended against Brussels.
In his words, the union is a transfunctional institution, “it’s not above us, it’s ours too.” “Private capital funds, speculative capital and giant companies are more of a threat,” pointed out the former LMP politician.
The Mandiner staffer then asked what makes a medium pro-war. Tamás Lánczi responded to this by
ask the 444 or telex journalists!
According to him, they conducted investigations, looked at the narratives of the different sides, and also identified the argumentation techniques. Based on these, it turned out that there is a Western argument system and there is a Russian one. According to the latter, Russia has the right to fight this war. However, overall, it can be stated that the narrative that argues for the expansion and escalation of the war is against Hungarian interests,” underlined the political scientist.
At the end of the conversation, they also discussed how the American election in November will affect Europe. Tamás Lánczi said here that he thinks that there are currently forces in power in Washington who
they also pose a threat to the sovereignty of nation states.
“But they are also against the American people themselves: they are manipulating the democratic machinery in such a way that it is against the interests of the American people.”
In Schiffer’s answer, he stated: the American political elite does not represent the interests of the Democrats. According to him, “we have to face the fact that there is not a fight between good and bad, but East Central Europe will still be better off if the actors of the nation state come to power in January 2025 and not the people of global capital.
