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"Mr President, Prime Minister, a few days after the end of the Hungarian Presidency the initial feeling is relief, because we, Hungarians took the Presidency of the EU for the first time, and as you might know, we are a proud nation and we live up to what we have promised. This is what we did this time as well. We kept the rules of the club we joined, and responded to the criticisms raised previously here in connection with the media law by subjecting ourselves to common EU law, as we do not seek special treatment.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to draw the attention of Vice-President Swoboda in particular to this. I will read the introduction to the Hungarian Constitution in English:
‘We agree with the members of the first free Parliament, which proclaimed as its first decision that our current liberty was born of our 1956 Revolution.’
In other words, our Hungarian Constitution does commemorate 1956; the Constitution is based on these foundations.
I consider the worldview of Cohn-Bendit a bit unusual; by the way, he seems to have put in an appearance in Parliament only for the duration of making this speech. He reckons that public servants do an excellent work. The only Roma MEP and one deaf MEP are sitting among the Hungarian Members of the European Parliament, so everything is all right, except there is one problem with Hungary: the Prime Minister, who leads all this, who leads his party and the country as well with the same determination. This is a very peculiar worldview, but there might be a hidden contradiction in it. We Hungarians act as we speak, and the past period has served ample proof of this. We will definitely not comply with conditions that this European Parliament is about to adopt in its decision in a few hours’ time, in which they call for loosening the stringent criteria on the budget set out in the Constitution in order to avoid indebtedness. The European Parliament wants us to do just that. If we consider this as a Brussels or Strasbourg dictate, then it is a dictate that we will not abide by. I would also like to draw Mr Swoboda’s attention to the fact that Prime Minister Orbán expressed his thanks to everyone, to the whole Parliament, for the work accomplished, but just happened to highlight the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) in particular."@en1
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