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"Mr President, Prime Minister, Commissioner, much has been said here today about values, and I want to say something about Viktor Orbán and about history. I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr Orbán in 1989, when he was the leader of a student organisation and I was one of the leaders of a similar organisation in Poland. We met in Warsaw and talked not only about how to overthrow Communism; we talked about Europe and about the future, about our future in Europe. We talked about Mr Orbán’s dream that Hungary would become a European state. Hungary is a European state, and, in my opinion, Mr Orbán is a democrat and a European. He fought for human rights, and he fought for democracy, as opposed to some of his critics in Hungary, who built a totalitarian system. This should not be forgotten.
One message for President Cohn-Bendit, who is unfortunately leaving: we recognise your support of democracy in Eastern Europe. I hope that you have not forgotten what totalitarianism is. If you have forgotten, I suggest – I am sure Prime Minister Orbán will invite you to Hungary – that you spend one month in Hungary and one month with Mr Chávez. You will surely discover the difference."@en1
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