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Justice Minister: LIBE has no power over Hungary
Hungary is a free and independent country over which the EP’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) has no power.
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Brussels pushes forward with plans to force illegal migration onto EU member states
István Hollik says the Brussels leadership doesn’t just want to manage migration, but in fact wants to increase it
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EC working on “creating a humanitarian visa for immigrants”
The European Commission has offered to pay out 6,000 euros for each migrant taken in via the Mediterranean
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Judit Varga: The EU's Hungarian witch-hunt
The Hungarian minister of state for EU relations has penned a telling depiction for Politico.eu of the EU’s witch-hunt against Hungary over the migrant crisis
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Sargentini Report is revenge against Hungary for rejecting illegal immigration, says official
“The European Union should be handling serious issues instead of pestering a member state for absolutely no reason,” Tamás Menczer said
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PM Orbán to attend contentious LIBE hearing on Hungary's rule of law
PM Orbán has said the report could be considered a “Soros report”, aimed at pressuring Hungary to change its standpoint on the issue of migration, “but that will not happen”
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The show trial before the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee
The latest LIBE report is, in fact, nothing other than yet another Soros report, said Prime Minister Orbán earlier this week, and it’s aimed at applying pressure on Hungary to make the country change its position on migration.
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PM Orbán: A report on the situation of the rule of law in Hungary approved by the LIBE committee is clearly a “Soros report”
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said they want to pressurise Hungary in order to make the country change its position on migration
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Incoming justice minister regards Sargentini Report as an indictment with a list of already closed cases
Minister Trócsányi highlighted that the Sargentini Report is an indictment which “is based on a very large number of political insinuations” and “contains a list of closed cases”
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The LIBE draft report on Hungary: a masterpiece collection of fake news
Speaking at last Thursday’s session of the European Parliament’s LIBE committee, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó reiterated Hungary’s strong opposition to any pro-migration plan. The draft report – which would call for the nuclear option of an Article 7 procedure to be launched against Hungary – is “a collection of compounded lies” and takes a stance far removed from facts and reality, he said.
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Hungary’s FM: LIBE report includes assorted lies and factual errors that call into question the credibility of the whole document
Hungary’s foreign minister has said that the special report on Hungary being drawn up by the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) is the basic document of a show trial
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Government Spokesperson: Sargentini Report presented by LIBE is the work of the “Soros empire”
Zoltán Kovács said that the LIBE Committee had presented the draft of its report on Hungary, which includes serious criticisms, the rapporteur of which is Green Party MEP Judith Sargentini
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European Parliament committee recommends triggering disciplinary proceedings against Hungary
Invoking Article 7, the nuclear option, could mean that Hungary loses its voting rights in the European Council