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"Mr President, Prime Minister, I must admit that sometimes there are certain things I do not understand. You told us just now, ‘Europe is strong, Europe can act, Europe must act, Europe must act as a force that must assert itself amid difficult political and economic circumstances’; and everyone applauds.
You have a radio which is free, Club Radio. As if by chance, its frequency is being taken away, and, as if by chance, a Catholic radio station will get Club Radio’s frequency. Of course, you will say to me that this is an accident of history and that we do not know why it always goes one way and not the other. Therein lies the problem.
You then said just now, quite rightly, that it is a … – ah, you can shake your head; I know that everything that I say is true. You are making a mockery of this, though, because you wanted to give us a great nationalist speech, and then all the Hungarians will be saying that at least they have shown Brussels how it is.
You have fought for freedom. I did not hear much from you when countries such as Egypt and Tunisia were fighting for freedoms; you were quite laid-back on that issue. Then, when people were receiving China, for example, we heard nothing from the great freedom fighter; you were quite relaxed then. So stop constantly telling us stories.
Then, the issue was mentioned just now of what is happening in Europe at the moment regarding the problem of borders and what Denmark is doing. As a matter of urgency, the Presidency of the European Union and the Presidency of the Commission must say that all of this has to stop immediately. The Schengen agreements are the Schengen agreements; they are European law. No single country, whether it is Hungary or Denmark, has the right to call European law into question unilaterally.
If we need to change European law, Mr Barroso, it will have to be changed in codecision with Parliament, and let us see if you get a majority in favour of changing Schengen, Mr Barroso.
So, Mr Orbán, your team has done some good work, but you are a fighter against dictators from the dictatorship; the fighter is called Viktor Orbán and the dictator is called Viktor Orbán.
Then I read: ‘in 1848 we did not bow to orders from Vienna; in 1956 and 1990, we did not bow to orders from Moscow, and nor shall we bow to orders from Brussels today’. Who said that? Was it Václav Klaus? No, it was Viktor Orbán, speaking to an audience in March this year. Mr Barroso will then ask why Europe is not well received in their country. It is because there are politicians who say one thing here in Brussels or Strasbourg and another thing in their own country. This is what damages Europe and brings Europe down, and Mr Orbán, you are one of those politicians.
The situation is quite clear-cut:
the situation is quite clear-cut, you know: you have done a fine job, as have your civil servants. This is very interesting. We are witnessing a case of nationwide schizophrenia, with unbelievable national cynicism to boot, in that in Hungary, they are undoing all the work that is done in Strasbourg and Brussels. You will tell me that this is not important. Am I right? Thank you, you are most kind! I will continue: ‘It is our expectation of all demonstrators that they should not seek to destroy the State’s goals, which serve Hungary’s interests. We will therefore always take explicit action, within the bounds of legality, against these kinds of demonstrators, in order to protect ourselves against foreigners.’ Who said that? It was Viktor Orbán!
Who said:
‘we are Hungarians, we have our own way of dealing with this; we can be unpleasant, if necessary, so that’s the right approach, I think.’
János Kádár, 1985: there is your problem, Mr Orbán.
On the one hand, you were someone who fought for freedom in 1989 and then, all of a sudden, you came – and this is something strange and extraordinary – you came, distrusting yourself, because you are against the dictator of Brussels, but, since you are President of the Brussels dictatorship, this means you distrust yourself. You should be far more distrustful of yourself, Mr Orbán. So you would understand the reaction of Europeans now concerning what has happened in the press in your country. Two left-liberal newspapers wanted to merge. The European Union, Mr Barroso, then approved this merger, but your independent media council, which you control, refused the merger, as these are opposition newspapers."@en1
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