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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have principles in the European Union, including the independence of the judiciary and the central bank and fundamental democratic rights. If there are any doubts about these fundamental rights or principles, we need to discuss them. The right place for these discussions is here in the European Parliament. For this reason, I would like to emphasise specifically how grateful I am to Mr Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary, for coming here. He was not invited. He said: I will take part in the discussion, because we have nothing to hide. I would like to emphasise too that Mr Orbán is here and is listening while many of those Members who were so hysterical and dramatic that they could hardly contain themselves have obviously already left the Chamber. He is still here and we should acknowledge that.
If we leave the party politics to one side, the facts are quite simple: Europe has ground rules which apply to all of us. The job of the Commission is to ensure that everyone follows these rules and that is what it has done. The Hungarian Government has already promised on several occasions to deal with these problems and to make the necessary changes. These are the facts. If we could simply put aside the political hysteria, then we would be able to talk objectively about the situation. I have heard nothing new today from those on the left concerning the facts. Mr Swoboda stands up and says that the judiciary may be independent. Then I hear from Mr Orbán that there was absolutely no criticism of the constitution. Next Mr Verhofstadt says that this is not about individual legal details. It is about the fundamental question of whether Hungary is still democratic.
We in the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) stand for law and justice. If anyone has a criticism, they must substantiate it objectively and in terms of its content with regard to the judicial issues and not simply claim that someone has acted undemocratically.
What we are experiencing in many areas is quite simply an arbitrary approach. If I do not like a specific aspect of the legislation in Hungary, I describe it as undemocratic, radical and right-wing or totalitarian. We in the PPE Group will not tolerate this.
Finally, I would like to say that I have been working in this Parliament since 2004. I was involved with the case of Slovakia, which introduced a law banning the use of the Hungarian language there. All of the people on the left who are now getting so angry …
We initiated the matter and everyone on the left of this House with their social democratic government …"@en1
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