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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have been a Member of this House since 2004 and since then there have been on several occasions proven, actual and significant violations of fundamental freedoms here in the European Union, and these were not just rumours. We need only remember what has already been mentioned here, namely the events of the autumn of 2006 in Budapest, which the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg also deemed a serious violation of freedoms, and yet back then you were not so sensitive about freedoms because it was a Socialist government you would have needed to condemn. This is what I, together with an increasing number of people in Europe, call double standards, and in response to those who bring up the issue of compliance with the accession criteria, well, a great many old Member States would today fail to comply with those criteria, if for nothing else then for the lack of protection afforded by them to minorities.
Twenty years after Hungary’s democratic transition we have finally reached a point where we can set our legal system right and make it European. This is demanded by the present economic situation, and to an even greater extent by the majority of Hungarians, because our fundamental laws were unable to undergo renewal even in a period of 20 years. For all that time judicial decisions took years to be delivered, hundreds of pseudo-churches unrightfully received state subsidies, minorities lacked parliamentary representation, and votes did not carry equal weight due to disproportionalities between electoral districts. You do not agree with some of these legislative provisions and the Commission is expecting amendments on certain points. This is understandable as this is their job, as long as the opinions are based on facts; however, what is not acceptable is that you make judgements on the basis of an unfounded press campaign and press rumours, mention words such as dictatorship and call into question the free democratic rights of Hungarian voters.
I have asked my fellow Members how many of them have actually read the constitution and the laws under discussion, and in every case they replied that they know them and have read about them only from press rumours."@en1
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