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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it seems to me that the debate that we are listening to oscillates between a series of comments on the merits, which should be commended for their clarity – the Commission’s for example – and at the same time the Hungarian Government’s desire to go into detail not only in order to specify its own position but also to seek solutions together, and at the other end of the scale an ideological position that we are, unfortunately, used to hearing here, which in actual fact risks producing the opposite effect to the one it intends. In the last few days, following an ideological turn to the debate, we have in fact seen the European flag being burned in Hungary. This is a mere taste of what can happen when there is no perception of criticism and a desire to go into detail, but it can spark off populist reactions because it tends to divide those who have fought with good reasons, perhaps different from others’, but in any case for freedom, justice and democracy, from those who do not have a democratic approach. I now want to propose a very simple solution, which I will call the ‘Schulz solution', because I am referring to the words that you, Mr President, used in the meeting with our group. You said that attempting to cite Article 7 to criticise a government without looking at the issues in detail and simply accepting and listening to the responses of the government itself actually only produces the effect of making it stronger. You mentioned as an example what happened with the government that had Jörg Haider in the coalition in Austria a few years ago. I think your words were sensible. I recognise this, but I do not wish to manipulate what you said. Therefore I am merely restating them here (…) and asking everyone to think carefully about them."@en1
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