Justice min: New German govt must respect Hungary’s sovereignty – excerpt from Die Welt
Germany’s new federal government has to respect Hungary’s sovereignty, Justice Minister Judit Varga said in an interview published by German daily Die Welt on Friday.
Varga said that although there were “fundamental ideological differences” between Hungary’s government and the new German ruling coalition comprising the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), those differences “shouldn’t prevent us from working together”.
Asked if the disagreements around the enforcement of rule-of-law principles and the issue of migration would have a negative effect on the two governments’ ties, the minister said the “conflict concerning the rule of law” was “ideological in nature” and “not about specifics”.
These kinds of disagreements, she said, were only “a means for taking action against Hungary”.
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“We demand that the new federal government respect our sovereignty”, Varga said, underlining that this included Hungary’s migration and family policies as well.
She said Germany should not expand its policies to other countries, adding that it was in Germany’s right to decide that it wanted to become “a country of immigrants”, but this “doesn’t apply to us”.
Put to her that the infringement procedures against Hungary were not being pursued by the German government, and that the ongoing disagreements were between the Hungarian government and the European Commission, the minister said Berlin was using the issue of the rule of law “as an excuse to criticise the Hungarian government”, and was “accusing” Hungary of not respecting EU laws when it comes to migration.
She also said there was “no proof” to back up allegations made by Germany’s Greens and Liberals that there were problems with the enforcement of the rule of law in Hungary.
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Varga said Hungary had never talked about going against EU law, adding, however, that the bloc’s legal system needed to be “adjusted to reality”.
As regards the mechanism in the EU budget that links funding to the rule of law, Varga said Hungary had agreed to it because it had seen that member states needed to overcome the coronavirus crisis together. Hungary therefore withdrew its veto of the bloc’s recovery fund, because it had received guarantees that the conditionality mechanism “wasn’t going to be used against us as ideological blackmail”.
But, she added, Hungary had been “deceived”, arguing that “the ideological blackmail is continuing” and the country, because of its child protection law, was not being given the recovery monies it was entitled to.
To read the full interview in German, visit die Welt.
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Really??? How about Hu govt starting to show a minimum of respect for the EU ( Hungary being a member of it, in case they did not know… ) and fellow EU states????