Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch has said parliament’s European affairs committee should open an investigation into the “dollar left’s manoeuvres” aimed at blocking Hungary’s access to European Union funds.
Deutsch told MTI that he has turned to Fidesz parliamentary group leader Mate Kocsis, calling for a special session of the European affairs committee for the purpose of investigating the Hungarian “dollar left’s political manoeuvring” to block Hungary’s access to EU development funds. In his letter to Kocsis, Deutsch noted that opposition Momentum lawmaker Miklós Hajnal had recently “admitted” on television that his party’s MEPs, Anna Donáth and Katalin Cseh, “did their utmost to prevent the transfer of EU monies to Hungary”. He said Hajnal had admitted to Donáth and Cseh’s roles in Brussels’s rule-of-law and infringement procedures against Hungary that delayed the country’s access “to the funds it is entitled to”. Deutsch said Hajnal’s “admission” meant that Momentum’s MEPs had “broken their oaths and betrayed their voters” by working against Hungary. He said Fidesz believed that “no ideological belief or political calculation” could overrule an MEP’s moral obligation to act in the interests of their country and its citizens.