Hungary has been fighting relentlessly to eliminate violence against women for ten years. However, the parliamentary group will not support “documents infringing on member states’ competencies,” it said.
MEP Tamás Deutsch said a European People’s Party’s EP group meeting on Wednesday night was “calm and sober, despite earlier hopes by the EPP’s adversaries”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has told Magyar Nemzet that József Szájer's actions are incompatible with Fidesz's values.
An MEP for Hungary’s ruling Fidesz said the “political pressure” being exerted on Transcarpathian Hungarians and “attacks” directed against the community and their leaders by Ukraine are “unacceptable”.
József Szájer of Hungary's ruling Fidesz party said his decision to resign marked the end of a “long period of reflection”. The resignation will come into effect on December 31.
Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch said Brussels was getting ready to implement a plan by US financier George Soros to import migrants into Europe.
Balázs Hidvéghi said the rule of law is used as a political weapon and standards are applied arbitrarily against countries that the EU has debates with about the set of values they apply.
A recently published video shows Donáth stating that she was in “constant contact” with Jourová, the Vice-President for Values and Transparency.
Fidesz-led MEPs said the EP has created an unprecedented and dangerous precedent by launching an attack against the prime minister of an EU member state on the basis of politically motivated rumours.
Hungary’s ruling parties condemned attempts to “simplify history and rewrite the past”, saying that vandalising statues evoked the worst excesses of the communist era.
Balázs Hidvéghi said the rule of law issue had been a “cover story” for what was a political dispute between pro-migration forces and Hungary, which opposes migration.
PM Orbán announced on March 20 last year that Fidesz would “unilaterally suspend" its EPP membership until ad hoc committees of both Fidesz and the EPP complete their reports on the matter.
In a statement released by the ruling party, Balázs Hidvéghi said “pro-migration Socialists and Liberals want to push through another wildly pro-migration proposition in the EP”.