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"Mr President, I am grateful that Mr Orbán is here today and that he recognises this Parliament as being a forum for debates of this kind. This makes him to a certain extent a trendsetter and we should use this as an opportunity to invite the governments involved in future treaty infringement proceedings to take part in discussions. This does not have to be in plenary; it could also be in the relevant committee.
I am pleased that here we have a government which is open to criticism and which has promised to make changes to rectify the issues that have been identified as being incompatible with the
. It has already done this in the case of the media law. I think it is also important for us to remember how this government’s predecessors behaved. I recall, as other Members may do, the famous pack-of-lies speech made by Mr Gyurcsány. This makes it clear why the response was a two-thirds majority in the elections. Because the people who moved in these circles, as far as I am aware, were always very elegant and eloquent in handling our media and spoke several languages, they were also able to convey a picture of the country which, in my opinion, was a distortion of reality.
With regard to the three points, I have a question for the Commission concerning the national bank: When does it become a legal requirement for the central bank to be independent? I thought that had to be the case when a country joined the euro area. This implies that there is no obligation beforehand. Therefore, it is a political question as to whether or not a few structural changes are made on the way to joining. My specific question is therefore as follows: When does this obligation begin?
Secondly, as far as the independence of the data protection ombudsman is concerned, I would like to ask the Hungarian Government to compare its rules with those of other European countries. Institutional independence is an important value and this also involves only being able to replace the head of the institution in an exceptional situation.
Thirdly, I do not have any detailed information about the government’s intentions in reducing the retirement age from 70 to 62. However, I am certain about one thing and that is that a left-wing government with the same intentions would have celebrated this measure as a major socio-political feat and as a means of making way for the younger generation."@en1
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