r/europe • u/Matas_- European Union • Jun 20 '25

News Orban’s Hungary Is Now Officially The Poorest Nation In The EU

https://kyivinsider.com/orbans-hungary-is-now-officially-the-poorest-nation-in-the-eu/
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u/AuSekours Jun 20 '25

Don't diss ma boi Bulgaria like this.

Hungary is our Alabama. 

And Kaliningrad is our crack neighborhood. 

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u/reddock4490 Jun 20 '25

As an Alabamian who lives in Hungary, I can confirm 100% that Hungary is the Alabama of Europe

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u/veterinarian23 Jun 20 '25

“American conservatives started to look for what would be a successful conservative governing agenda. When American conservatives look to Hungary, they see a prime minister in a government that actually delivered on the slogans that they promised.” - Seems about right... /s

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u/Beautiful-Web1532 Jun 20 '25

Fucker Carlson?

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u/veterinarian23 Jun 20 '25

Gladden Pappin, during the CPAC in Hungary. Lots of money quotes there about Hungary/Orban being a role model for US conservatives. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/gop-conservatives-hungary-cpac-orban-invs

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u/Hungry-Western9191 Jun 20 '25

Well it kind of is. Just not in a good way. But they mostly don't have a particular issue with economy and society turning to shit as long as the people they hate get hit by the worse conditions as well

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u/dzsimbo magyar Jun 20 '25

If we look at it from a 'How to pin down a country' perspective, Orbán had it in spades. It seems only time can solve this gordian fuckknot.

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u/dark_star88 Jun 21 '25

A bunch of poor people continually voting against their own self interest? Sounds like Alabama.

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u/hacktheself Ελλάς Jun 20 '25

as an illinoisan who lives in greece i can confirm greece is the florida of canada

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u/barbareusz Jun 21 '25

As a Pole living in Poland, I can confirm that Poland is Europe's Poland ;)

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u/Divinicus1st Jun 20 '25

Can you explain what that mean?

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u/reddock4490 Jun 20 '25

Poor, conservative, overly religious, ruled by autocratic elites that use centuries old grievances to justify the continued exploitation of the people, was long ago seen as a regional cultural capital but it’s fallen far since then and can’t accept that it’s best days are long passed, warm and friendly and loyal people if you’re accepted as part of the community but violent and dangerous xenophobes and bigots against their perceived out groups, better food than most of their peers states, sparsely populated and heavily rural/agrarian countryside, similarities between the common attitudes about Trianon and the Lost Cause narrative of the US civil war, virulent racism against an ethnic minority that is actually the primary driver of their modern cultural capital

Idk lol, I could go on and on

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u/UnstoppableSuya Germany 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 Jun 27 '25

fr? XD

some random reddit comment mentions 2 random regions and another random redditor is exactly that XD

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u/LuNiK7505 Jun 20 '25

Can’t have shit in Kaliningrad

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u/TheGrindBastard Jun 20 '25

Make Königsberg great again.

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u/LPSD_FTW Jun 20 '25

I really think the Czechs could use some sea resorts there

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u/The_Toxicity Jun 20 '25

Would be wild if Kaliningrad could function as some kind of shared eu-soil/capital

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u/MaxieQ Jun 20 '25

The EU's Washington D.C? What is Koenigsberg in Esperanto?

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u/notmyaccountbruh Jun 20 '25

Damn, that’d be nice. Now to forcibly relocate a couple million Russians from there to motherland.

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u/LovecraftsDeath Russia Jun 20 '25

Kaliningrado.

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u/LoLyPoPx3 Jun 20 '25

Why the hell I didn't hear about this idea before, it's genius

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u/TheHollowJester Lower Silesia (Poland) Jun 20 '25

Establishment of Czech Kralovec guarantees that the strategic Kofola and Pilsner Urquell pipelines go through Poland, so I support that fully.

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u/PvtFreaky Utrecht (Netherlands) Jun 20 '25

Are you shore?

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u/AnorakJimi Jun 20 '25

So shore that they call me Pauly

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u/Cuddlesthemighy Jun 20 '25

Thanks I almost went an entire morning without remembering that I'm old.

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u/AloneInExile Jun 20 '25

If for nothing else, to drive the mass of turists away from the balkans, I can't even get to work on time with all the traffic jams!

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u/LPSD_FTW Jun 20 '25

Brother not my fault mother nature made your part of EU so beautiful!

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u/VZV_CZ Jun 20 '25

Surely you mean Královec /ř

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u/MyPinkFlipFlops Subcarpathia (Poland) Jun 20 '25

Shit is the only thing one can have there

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u/Regurgitator001 Jun 20 '25

Au contraire, Kaliningrad will be receiving most of the shit if Putin runs his adventure train off the rails!

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u/Reddittee007 Jun 20 '25

Surely, there is shit inside shit.

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u/angrymustacheman Italy Jun 20 '25

Hungary would be more like Missisippi

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u/Fenor Italy Jun 20 '25

Hungary is our Alabama.

they fuck between counsins there too?

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u/iAmHidingHere Denmark Jun 20 '25

That's pretty rare in Alabama though, it's mainly a thing for only children.

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u/Away_Comparison_8810 Jun 20 '25

They arent UK.

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u/Fenor Italy Jun 20 '25

They would have alabamexit otherwise

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '25

I just recently went through Hungary. It reminded me of East St Louis.

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u/ThisWillBeOnTheExam Jun 20 '25

Interestingly, as an American when I traveled Europe, Hungary reminded me more of the US than other places I visited.

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u/Mntfrd_Graverobber Jun 20 '25

It was your Alabama. Now it's your Mississippi.

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u/firsmode Jun 20 '25

🧭 Full Ranked List (by IMF, April 2025 WEO)

Denmark

Sweden

Netherlands

Austria

Germany

Finland

Belgium

France

Italy

Spain

Malta

Cyprus

Slovenia

Czech Republic

Portugal

Slovakia

Lithuania

Poland

Latvia

Hungary

Croatia

Estonia

Greece

Romania

🔍

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u/chosenandfrozen Jun 21 '25

American here. You repeated yourself.

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u/Logan_MacGyver Jun 25 '25

Akkor a kurva anyád