Facebook statement by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of a meeting of EU heads of state and government
29 June 2023, Brussels
29 June 2023, Brussels
Hungary rejects attempts to create a uniform Europe but sees no alternative other than to remain a member of the EU and NATO.
More than half of Hungarians (54 percent) believe the European Union leadership to be corrupt, with even a third of government-critics (31 percent) holding the same view.
István Hollik said the corruption scandal entangling Brussels is “the biggest such scandal” of the decade with left-wing politicians “playing the main role” in it.
The prime minister said that the fact that “the left-wing vice-president of the European Parliament was arrested over corruption charges” has left its mark on the Brussels summit of the European Union.
The European Council will meet to discuss the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, economic issues and foreign relations on Thursday and Friday.
Speaking about the upcoming referendum on the child protection law, Prime Minister Orbán recalled that we have already managed to stop Brussels once on the issue of migrant quotas.
Brussels is abusing its powers and threatening Hungary only because Hungarian laws have forbidden sexual propaganda in kindergartens, at school, on the television screen and in advertisements.
While the United States has already vaccinated more than 10 million citizens, and the UK is now well beyond 3 million, some critics say that EU member states are lagging behind in terms of administering the lifesaving jab. So, what’s really happening? Has the EU reserved enough vaccines? Did they arrive late to the party? Why does the supply seem so unreliable? These are just a few of the tough questions for Brussels.
“Article 7 proceedings against Hungary must be terminated,” Katalin Novák said, adding that Hungary’s parliament had endorsed this demand.
Conditions approved by Hungary’s parliament regarding the EU’s coronavirus rescue package lay out a clear set of principles to be applied by the government at the upcoming EU summit focusing on the bloc’s next budget.
Prime Minister Orbán spent the day in Brussels discussing the EU’s next, seven-year budget with senior EU officials, including European Council President Charles Michel and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.