Juncker: Death Penalty In Hungary: “Cause For Divorce”

  • 2 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
Juncker: Death Penalty In Hungary: “Cause For Divorce”
European Commission President Jean- Claude Juncker said he would consider it a “cause for divorce” if Hungary introduced the death penalty. “No one who introduces capital punishment has a place in the European Union,” he told Süddeutsche Zeitung in a Monday interview.

Juncker said it was part of his basic political credo that there should be no capital punishment, so a conflict would ensue were Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to challenge this.

On his recent remarks to Orbán which got picked up by the Hungarian press, Juncker said he had been calling him a “dictator” for two years.

“It is a sign of friendship,” he told the paper. Commenting on Orbán calling the EU’s quota plan for refugees “insanity” Juncker said Orbán was “obviously not familiar with the terms of psychology and neuroscience but this could not be held against him”.

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