Speaker of Parliament: EU about to be destroyed by its protectors
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The European Union is on course to be destroyed by the very people currently trying to protect it from Hungary, Speaker of Parliament László Kövér told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio on Sunday.
Regarding the current state of affairs in the EU, Kövér said that “after Nazis and Communists, a new totalitarian ambition is about to destroy Europe, sometimes called Liberalism, post-Humanism or whatever… green folly.” Commenting on claims of “uppity politicians rubbing in our faces that we would not be accepted into the EU today because of our so-called rule-of-law issues and values and views,” Kövér said he would probably vote against Hungary joining the bloc if the referendum was held today.
Kövér said
he had voted for the EU in 2003
out of conviction that with its accession, Hungary would receive a favourable, democratic and civilised framework as well as funding. “That is true right up to this day,” Kövér said, stressing he did not think Hungary would fare better outside the EU.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” HL Mencken 1918