House Speaker accuses EU’s political elite of being detached from reality

Addressing a conference in Dresden, Germany, House Speaker László Kövér accused the European Union’s political elite of being detached from reality and the interests of ordinary Europeans, and Hungarians expected this elite to step back from “destroying” the EU. At the event, the Central European Forum, organized by the Parliament of Saxony, Kövér said: “We central Europeans are lectured far more often about what the European Union expects of us than they ask about what we central Europeans expect from the European Union.” Hungarians, he said, expected the European Union to desist “from turning a peace project into a war project” and from turning “a democracy project into a dictatorship project”. Further, “a welfare project should not be turned into an impoverishment project”, he said, adding that the EU should not succumb to “anti-Christian” political forces in the land of two thousand years of European Christian culture.