Video: Hungarian PM Orbán Threatens New Europe Grouping To Rival 'Weaker' EPP
- 14 Jan 2020 8:28 AM
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The government is launching a new National Consultation, this time on the issue of economic neutrality, Prime Minister's Office leader Gergely Gulyas announced at a Wednesday press conference after the cabinet met on Tuesday.
Leader of the opposition Tisza Party Peter Magyar on Tuesday accused ruling Fidesz of having "cheated" Hungarians by "preaching" about a rural, family and child-friendly, bourgeois Hungary while making the country "the poorest and most corrupt country in the European Union".
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European People's Party leader Manfred Weber are seeking to "topple the sovereigntist Hungarian government" and replace it with a "Brussels-style administration", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio in an interview broadcast.
Addressing a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, opposition Tisza Party MEP Peter Magyar said the premierships of Ferenc Gyurcsany and Viktor Orban "were the decades of missed opportunities", insisting that Hungary had become "the poorest and most corrupt" country in the European Union.
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