@elCelio Yes, as long as you don't rock the boat for them in the EUCO, the CDU will let its local oligarchs like Plenković, Borissov and indeed, for a long time, Orbán, run their countries like feudal satrapies. The long-term effects on not just the lives of our fellow EUropeans in those countries, but on our Union are what they are... cf:

https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/04/09/orban-economie-neo-royalisme/

But mine was not a moral argument against Boyko's baronialism, just saying that pro-Russia doesn't mean much to the mafia.