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"Mr President, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to analyse and assess the half-year Hungarian Presidency from two aspects. Looking at issues first from a broader perspective, I will assess the European Union, then I would like to analyse the issues from the Hungarian point of view.
The European Union, as always, is faced with two choices: to be the nations’ Europe, an economic alliance in which the sovereignty of Member States is accepted and their independence is respected, or to be the United States of Europe, where Member States are practically considered colonies. Unfortunately, the Hungarian Presidency subscribed to the latter and supported further centralisation, which will make it more difficult for Hungary too to restore its sovereignty in the future.
Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians voted in 2004 in favour of the European Union because they expected that Hungarians living in the Carpathian Basin would be reunited within the borders of the EU, that they would be able have unhindered contact, and would belong to the same community again. Let us suppose the Hungarian Presidency is a symbolic presidency and has little room for manoeuvring from a national aspect. Mr Prime Minister, in spite of this you should have mentioned at least symbolically the Slovak language law, the Beneš decrees or the Szekler territorial autonomy, which you put off, while on the other hand you still fought tooth and nail to protect a defective media law and you created a Roma strategy; and the problem is not the creation of a European Roma strategy, but that along the road you did not set up a Hungarian strategy."@en1
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