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Minister: Hungary wants strong nation states cooperating in Europe
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Europe is embroiled in a “truth war” being fought over “our future, the survival of the Hungarian nation and a European future that values the diversity of nations”, the justice minister told a conference in Budapest on Thursday.
The freedom of expression is a fundamental right guaranteed by Hungary’s constitution “even if those in Brussels refuse to acknowledge this in certain rule-or-law reports”, Judit Varga told the event organised by the Hungarian National Media Association, the Centre for Fundamental Rights and the Batthyány Lajos Foundation.
She said that like the Hungarian political scene, the media landscape was also diverse, but Brussels often attempted to “conflate certain ideas” related to the media when it came to the debate on the state of the rule of law in Hungary. Varga said the idea of the press and
the freedom of expression were often conflated with the idea of media pluralism in Brussels.
“While one of those is a fundamental right in European democracies, the other is a matter connected to the market and comes down to a multitude of decisions made by founders and owners,” she said.