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"Mr President, on behalf of the LIBE Committee, allow me to present the oral question to the Commission which we have tabled concerning the situation in Hungary. On 10 June Parliament adopted a resolution in plenary on this situation, where it asked the Commission to assess the situation and to establish an EU mechanism to monitor democracy, the rule of law and human rights annually across the EU. The aim of the resolution is not to single out a single Member State or government but to call on EU institutions, particularly the Commission as the guardian of the EU Treaties, to fulfil an obligation to ensure the application of and compliance with the Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, across the Union.
The EU, as we all know, was founded on values of respect, freedom, democracy, equality and rule of law as well as human rights. With this in mind it is important that Member States and all EU institutions work together to protect these basic European principles.
In paragraph 11 of the resolution the European Parliament urged the Commission to ‘activate the first stage of the EU framework to strengthen the rule of law, and therefore to initiate immediately an in-depth monitoring process concerning the situation of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in Hungary, assessing a potential systemic serious breach of the values on which the Union is founded as per Article 2 TEU including the combined impact of a number of measures exacerbating the state of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, and evaluating the emergence of a systemic threat to the rule of law in that Member State that could develop into a clear risk of a serious breach within the meaning of Article 7 TEU’, and asked the Commission to ‘report back on this matter to Parliament and the Council before September 2015’.
So I put the following questions to the Commission: Has the Commission carried out this in-depth monitoring process as requested by Parliament? If not, can the Commission explained the reasons for not having initiated such in-depth monitoring? Secondly can the Commission provide the European Parliament with its assessment of the situation of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in Hungary today? Third, has the Commission activated the Rule of Law Framework as called for by the European Parliament, and if not, can the Commission provide a reasoned argument for not having done so?
I am very much looking forward to the responses of the Commission and the debate of Members on these key questions."@en1
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