Hungary in opposition to the MEP: “criminals in a jacket and tie” | EUROtoday

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“Let me understand well: Ilaria Salis who beaten people almost to death on the street escapes justice by sneaking into the European Parliament and now gives lessons to Hungary? Without shame. It is not a symbol of democracy, it is a symbol of how rotten the PE has become. He writes it on X writes the spokesperson for the Hungarian government Zoltan Kovacs in the aftermath of the Mission of the Mission of Budapest. “Hungary won’t take orders from criminals in a jacket and tie,” attacks.

The attack of the government spokesman comes after the mission of the Mission of the Civil and Justice Freedom Commission (Libe) in Hungary. A mission marked by the controversies for the green light of Budapest to the new laws against the LGBTQ+events. “This is just not surveillance. It is a marketing campaign of political defamation. Is this the thought of ​​the parliament to defend democracy? Supporting the anarcho-communist criminals and calling them ‘civil society’? It is to not be shocked that Prime Minister Viktor Orban has not met them. Would you settle for classes of justice by somebody who was elected solely to keep away from jail?”, Is Kovacs’ attack.

Hungary is also the subject of criticism by the European Commission which is carrying out a “authorized analysis” of the recent Hungarian law that prohibits public events, such as Budapest’s “Pride”, organized by the LGBT communities. The law was “armored” with an amendment to the national constitution approved the day before yesterday, which allows the Hungarian government to ban these events. But for the Commission “it will be important that elementary rights, which all of us have as EU residents, together with freedom of expression, freedom of affiliation and freedom of assembly, are revered in every Member State”. This was stressed today by the European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the State of law and the protection of consumers, Michael McGrath, during a press conference in Brussels.

“We at the moment are within the remaining phases of the preparation of the annual report on the state of legislation for 2025, which considerations every member nation, together with Hungary. Three weeks in the past – McGrath recalled – I visited Budapest and I met a sequence of events, from the federal government, to the authorities, to the representatives of the judiciary, to the organizations of civil society and likewise to the media”.

In relations with Hungary, the Commissioner recalled, “we, as fee, have been very lively in utilizing the instruments accessible to us, whether or not it’s the regulation on ‘conditionality’ or of the ‘horizontal qualifying situation'” which submit the disbursements of European funds for the Member States respectively to the condition of compliance with the State of law and the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. In addition, McGrath continued, “we’ve a sequence of ‘intermediate tremendous goals’ within the machine for the restoration and resilience (the PNRR, editor’s word). And they had been began Numerous infringement procedures in opposition to Hungarytogether with infringement procedures regarding EU values ​​”.