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"Mr President, I would like to draw your attention to a case and to ask you to take the appropriate steps. I am given to believe by the
website – which is normally a reliable source of information – that the Hungarian journalist Zsolt Bayer has made wild attacks on Neelie Kroes, who is performing her duties in accordance with the rules of the European Union, and has made even wilder vulgar and obscene attacks on our fellow Member Ulrike Lunacek.
You might say: well, he is a journalist. What does it have to do with us? However, we are talking here about a journalist who a short time ago organised a pro-Orbán demonstration in Hungary; a demonstration at which – according to various sources – anti-Semitic placards were displayed. I believe that the dignity of this House, but also the dignity of Ms Lunacek, obliges us to investigate this matter and to check whether the translations with which I have been provided are correct. This House must then defend both its own dignity and that of Ms Lunacek, irrespective of whether people are for or against Mr Orbán.
Practices that are absolutely unacceptable are making inroads here. If Neelie Kroes is attacked by Members of this House for performing the duties she is legally bound to perform, that is also unacceptable. I believe that we should maintain a certain moral standard in our political argumentation and should not deal with each other in ways that are thoroughly unacceptable.
The fact that I myself am now being called a liar by various spokespersons in Hungary is merely incidental. The way in which Ms Lunacek is being presented to the public in Hungary, however, is absolutely intolerable. I ask that you investigate the matter and, if the reports turn out to be true, that you defend the dignity of Ms Lunacek and of this House."@en1
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