The European Union is considering the possibility of expelling Hungary from the Schengen Zone due to its recent decision to ease visa restrictions for Russian and Belarusian citizens.
A growing backlash has emerged against Hungary’s move to simplify visa requirements, which includes a new national card program for extended stays and work permits. This policy change, which followed a visit to Moscow by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has drawn sharp criticism from EU lawmakers.
The lawmakers have also suggested that if Hungary does not amend its policy, the European Commission and EU representatives should consider new measures to protect European citizens. This could include increased border controls at Hungary’s borders and the possibility for other EU states to not recognize Hungarian visas.
The letter, which has collected nearly 70 signatures, including from former Belgian and Irish prime ministers, highlights the escalating tensions within the EU over Hungary’s foreign policy decisions.
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Tangential remark. This source, United24 Media, which has popped up elsewhere here today, is not a proper news organization. It seems to be a mouthpiece of the Ukrainian government which was originally set up to receive foreign donations to the war effort.
That’s all fine, I support their aims too. But it would be better if people posted articles from well-established media outlets employing proper journalists with a code of ethics and an institutional reputation to protect. Rather than propaganda (well-meaning or not) masquerading as journalism.
Come on, this is basic information literacy for the social-media age. We should know all this here.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was indeed also questioning this source.
What is wrong with this source, especially regarding this content? Several media sources are reporting on this issue with the same content in the meantime, I have seen the letter (you’ll find it online in the meantime), I have seen messages by several lawmakers’ on social media which all support the article’s content. So I decided to post this here as the content is accurate.
I’ve chosen this source because among all media reporting on the matter it is the one with less trackers, and it’s not behind Cloudflare unlike many others.
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As the original poster has already said: it’s an official propaganda outlet of the Ukrainian government. Unless you want to highlight what the Ukrainian government wants to push as a message, this is not a valid source for news, as it doesn’t fulfill journalistic minimum standards.
I sometimes even link directly to government agencies’ sites from multiple countries depending on the topic and content, but I never want to highlight what the Ukrainian or any other government want to push. Again, each line in the linked article can be checked independently from multiple sources across the web.
Sometimes propaganda is true 🤷♂️ In fact, as the saying goes, good propaganda has to be mostly true.
Yeah, and some truth makes sense while some is really weird.
Which ones?