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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, reading the European papers in the past few weeks one could have been under the impression that even the bad weather was the fault of the Hungarian Government, not to mention the economic crisis. Today, however, we finally had the chance to continue the heated debate about Hungary on a democratic footing. Yesterday the Commission specified the three subjects in respect of which it expects the Hungarian Government’s cooperation in legal form as well. In response the Hungarian Prime Minister, demonstrating his commitment to democracy, came here to respond personally to the questions raised. It was up to us, to Parliament, to grow up to this task and to provide a framework and control for this dialogue. Today we therefore had the opportunity to conduct a debate that was about factually based arguments instead of seeking to induce hysteria. However, we seem to have missed this opportunity. Today it was demonstrated that many left-wing Members are more interested in continuing a campaign of accusations reminiscent of show trials than in a rational resolution of disputed matters. Today it once again became clear that the left-wing would rather strew false accusations all over this House than go through the trouble of learning the facts. Today it became apparent that many left-wing Members still hope that the democratic decision made by two-thirds of the Hungarian voters can be overruled in Brussels or in Strasbourg.
Ladies and gentlemen, the left-wing is attacking Hungary’s sovereignty and the popular government of the country, but we would do well to remember that in doing so they do the most damage to the common European idea. The left-wing hopes that it has found a Europe-wide model to weaken the popular model and that it can profit from this, but it is once again mistaken, because in truth what it does serves exclusively to fuel radical parties. Today, when the EU is going through the severest crisis in its history, this is unforgiveable irresponsibility."@en1
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