Hungary to Defy the EU?

This is a subject close to my heart and something I know a little about being I'm married to a Hungarian and have travelled to Hungary at least 9 times and was even married there. I actually speak some Hungarian which is considered to be the 3rd hardest language in the world as there are 46 different ways to conjugate a verb and there are 3 different (I guess you might say forms) of each word (familiar, semi-formal and formal). However, I must be humble and say, Magyarom nem jo, de szeretem a nyelvet es Magyarorszag (I don't have the accents for the letters on my keyboard so it's a bit off), roughly translated as   the answer most give when asked if they speak Spanish, "Un pocito".


In any case, 3 days ago the EU Finance ministers decided they would punish Hungary, this was the EU finance Ministers saying they would not send development money to Hungary anymore unless Hungary did as they wanted with regard to their budget. It was seen as unfair because there are other countries with similar problems or worse, but the Finance Ministers only singled out Hungary.


Today we get news from the WSJ:

Hungary Has Sharp Words for EU

Speaking to a large crowd of supporters celebrating the anniversary of a 19th-century Hungarian revolt against Austrian rule, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said: "Hungarians will not live as foreigners dictate."


This may be the start of a revolt against the EU's intrusion in to sovereign counties' affairs. One thing you have to understand about Hungary is it is a proud nation that once threatened the very existence of the Roman Empire (Attila the Hun who was bribed by the Romans to keep his forces from invading Rome with lots of treasure). However, since, Hungary which use to be 2-3x larger then it is now, has been trampled underfoot by a series of foreign invaders, whether it was the Ottoman Turks who ruled most of Hungary for 150 years (Hungary was the DMZ between the Turks and Western Europe), the short lived but absolutely brutal Nazi occupation or the Soviet occupation just after, I have seen with my own eyes the former Nazi and KGB headquarters with their torture rooms, political prisoner torture cells (the cells they lived in where torture alone as one could not so much as turn around or sit, you could only stand while the cold air was pumped in to the cells which were kept half full with water).


The remnants of Soviet Realism architecture dot the landscape like a soar. These are people who just gained their freedom just a few short decades ago and I don't think they'll take well to the EU's demands.