Együtt, Socialists: Hungary’s PM “Unacceptable” In Europe
- 21 May 2015 9:00 AM
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “did not do well” in either of two debates focusing on Hungary -- in the European Parliament and at a US House subcommittee hearing, the opposition Együtt party said. Orbán was once again forced to defend his policies pursued since 2010, but it is clear that he has become “the lonely leader of Europe”, Nóra Hajdu, the party’s foreign affairs spokesperson, said. Both the issue of the death penalty and Hungary’s position on immigration would shock the EP and Orbán has become a burden even on his own People’s Party, Hajdu said.
Orbán’s remarks about Hungary being a homogeneous country just show that he is “either not familiar with Hungarian history or he is consciously misinterpreting it,” she added.
The opposition Socialists said it had become clear that Orban’s “xenophobic stance masked as a migration issue and his ideas on the death penalty were unaccaptable” and added that the conservative party group, too, saw that Orbán and Fidesz were sharply against universal European values and Christian values.
Deputy leader of ruling Fidesz Lajos Kósa said Orbán had defended Hungary at the EP session, as he was able to say in the debate that it is not in the interest of Hungarian people that current European immigration trends should continue.
Orbán also defended the right to discuss important questions freely, he said. Europe should remain a continent of Europeans and Hungary a country of Hungarians, Orbán said in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
The right of decision-making on immigration should be returned to member states as Hungary is “unable to provide jobs for immigrants,” he said in the debate.
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