It's an interesting battle space. Not sure either side really has a conclusive advantage.
Orban to be running EU council by June:
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According to EU rules, Hungary will take the Council's rotating presidency between July and December.
The timing could usher in a scenario in which "an unchecked Orban [will be] ruling the Council roost for the six months directly after the 2024 European election," Politico noted, adding that other EU leaders would "desperately" want to avoid such an outcome.
Orban has been at odds with officials in Brussels on many fronts. The Hungarian prime minister has been critical of EU migration policy, and has consistently opposed sending arms to Ukraine, as well as its accelerated integration into the EU. He has also slammed EU sanctions against Moscow, saying they hurt the bloc's economy.
Hungary also blocked a 50 billion aid package ($55 billion) for Kiev, which was meant to be disbursed between 2024 and 2027, while lashing out at the EU decision to freeze billions of euros in assistance to Budapest.
EU leaders are scheduled to meet on June 17 and June 27-28, shortly after the EU parliamentary election. Politico and other media have suggested that they would use those opportunities to agree on a replacement for Michel if he wins the election, although the process would have to move more quickly than usual. Under normal circumstances, Michel's mandate expires in November 2024.
BioBiden:
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BioBiden Timeline
A few days before the end of March Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marija Zakharova published a timeline of US-Ukraine bioresearch headed "BioBiden." Of the 23 timeline points she listed, Nathan Wolfe or organisations associated with him Metabiota and Global Viral were explicitly mentioned in 8 of them:
- 2007 US DoD employee Nathan Wolfe founded Global Viral Forecasting Institute (subsequently Global Viral), a biomedical company. The mission stated in the charter is non-commercial study of transborder infections, including in China.
- 2014 Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden's company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.
- 2014 Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to "assert Ukraine's cultural & economic independence from Russia".
- 2014 Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed "science project in Ukraine".
- 2014 Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.
- 2014-2016 Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.
- 2016 former US Assistant Secretary for Defence Andrew Weber is appointed head of Metabiota's global partnerships department.
- 2016 EcoHealth Alliance, a Global Viral founder Nathan Wolfe's structure, is engaged in the study of bat-transmitted coronaviruses at the research centre in a Wuhan laboratory, China.
Considering the accusation is US political elites' involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine, it perhaps indicates Moscow has identified Nathan Wolfe as a person of interest in what Zakharova termed "this truly diabolical plan."
Read more: Russian Foreign Ministry Releases Alleged "BioBiden" Timeline of US Bioresearch in Ukraine, The Gateway Pundit, 29 March 2022
Long thread; yes this is related very directly to the urgent need for Biden to cause/support this war, and his familia's financial backers in Russia as well as China.