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"Mr President, the powers of the constitutional court cannot be limited overnight – this was President Barroso’s message to the Romanian Government in July 2012. I agree with him. Yet neither President Barroso, nor Commissioner Reding reacted when the Hungarian Parliament amended the constitution in November 2010 and limited the powers of the constitutional court. The reason for the amendment was that one month earlier the constitutional court had annulled a new law put forward by the government. Calling court judgments in question and removing the fundamental checks and balances casts doubt on the government’s commitment to the rule of law, said José Manuel Barroso to Prime Minister Victor Ponta in July 2012. I agree with him.
Yet the Commission did not react when the
Government annulled court judgments, rearranged the electoral districts to its own benefit, appointed its own people as heads of independent institutions, and adopted 365 laws over a span of one and a half years while disregarding even the most basic rules of social consultation and parliamentary discourse. In his statement made in January this year Joseph Daul, Chairman of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) states that Mr Orbán will prove that he is committed to freedom rights and the values and principles of democracy. Upon the visit of Victor Ponta to Brussels in July this year, Mr Daul said that they strongly doubted that the diplomatic statements made by Prime Minister Ponta in Brussels would be followed by concrete action on the part of his government.
Double standards have no place in Europe; we must take joint action to protect democracy and the rule of law when they are under attack in a Member State, regardless of whether it is under conservative or left-wing leadership. I find it unacceptable that Commissioner Reding, who did not raise her voice against the violation of the rules of democracy in connection with the earlier actions of President Băsescu, is in the present situation making political judgments and is threatening Romania with a postponement of its Schengen accession while both the experts and the Commission found the country to be ready for accession in every respect. We have a right to expect objectivity from the Commission. This requires a monitoring mechanism that utilises impartial expert opinions to provide us with appropriate tools to investigate and sanction Member State measures violating democracy and the rule of law at Community level. I honestly …"@en1
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