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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I no longer experience the same surprise as I did sometimes in the past, when we discussed Berlusconi and the lack of media freedom in Italy or other topics. There has been a great deal of surprise and anger expressed at the way in which the two groups have attacked one another, despite the fact that they have colleagues in government in the various countries, using the same tone and never actually making it clear what the real issue was. It is a truly terrible thing to place the credibility of the European Union in jeopardy in this House. If the EU is to champion human rights, democracy and the rule of law, how is it that we simply criticise one another here without making it clear what the real issue at stake is? We need new, faster and more efficient procedures to counter violations of European values quickly, not just the procedure under Article 7, as it is being used in relation to Hungary here in this House at present, but also the control process that the Commission uses. Everything takes so long and we are making no real progress against violations in the areas of human rights, democracy and the media in the Member States of the EU. We need to go further. I also regret that Mr Ponta is not here today. I do not entirely understand why the European Parliament and the Bureau did not exert greater pressure on Mr Ponta and Mr Orbán to come here today. That would have been important."@en1
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