Fidesz MEP: ‘Left-wing EPP’, socialists and liberals have formed ‘pro-war’ platform

The “left-wing European People’s Party”, together with the socialists and liberals, have formed a “pro-war platform”, Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch told public radio in an interview on Sunday. Power politics in Europe, he said, had undermined the will of European voters.

War against democracy

Deutsch said there were 20 percent more “sovereigntist, right-wing and conservative” MEPs as a result of the EP election. “It’s clear that the right-wing, sovereigntist, nationally committed and patriotic parties won the EP election,” he added. He insisted that Europeans had not voted for a left-wing majority but a right-wing one, and they wanted sovereigntist forces rather than globalists, and they had voted for peace rather than for war.

The left-wing platform was overriding the outcome of the EP election, he said, adding that left-liberal forces had dominated the European mainstream “for decades”. He accused the liberal-left of “stealing” the vote from sovereigntist forces and handing them on to the globalist left that supported illegal migration and war. Deutsch called this “a declaration of war against the basic institutions of democracy”.

Hungarian opposition pro-war?

Meanwhile, he said Péter Magyar and Ferenc Gyurcsány, the leaders of the Tisza Party and the Democratic Coalition (DK), respectively, were forming tight cooperation in European politics, with Tisza representatives in the EPP and DK’s two MEPs part of the European Socialist family, both of which were in a “fraternal” relationship.

The Fidesz MEP said retaining power was paramount in European politics, “no matter how involved the re-anointed Ursula von der Leyen is in one of the gravest corruption cases in the EU’s history.”

Asked about how cooperative EU member states may be during Hungary’s EU presidency, he said that on the one hand, “we can expect loud whining … with statements defaming Hungary for political and ideological reasons” from the European Parliament, while on the other, the presidency itself had put forward a “well-prepared and high-quality” programme backed by 26 EU member states.

They do not want to lose European jobs

Not only would EU affairs be well-managed, but new initiatives would be held to solve “the crises affecting the functioning of the EU in the short term”, he said, noting a planned competitiveness pact aimed at preventing the loss of “hundreds of thousands of European jobs” while maintaining “quality of life” of Europeans.

Further, he mentioned the need to turn around Europe’s demographics and prevent solutions that would see “mostly illegal immigrants from outside the EU” taking European jobs. For this, policies aimed at stopping illegal migration such as those pursued by Hungary were also needed, he added.

Minister: Boosting European competitiveness focus of Hungary’s agenda

Boosting European competitiveness will be the main focus of Hungary’s EU presidency, János Bóka, the EU affairs minister, told public radio in an interview on Sunday.

Hungary wants to institute a European competitiveness pact within the framework of the European Council during its presidency, putting the issue in the central focus of politics and highlighting areas where constructive decisions can be made, such as streamlining EU legislation, cutting red tape for European businesses and broadening the internal market.

The latter may encompass services, IT and Europe’s defence industry, he added.

A proper European capital market which boosts infrastructure and energy links and establishes a European industrial policy aimed at fulfilling key European objectives, such as the green transition, is also a central objective, Bóka said.

A European security and defence policy aimed at strengthening the bloc’s peace and security and managing the migration crisis by strengthening Europe’s external borders and bolstering international partnerships will also be promoted under Hungary’s presidency, he said.

“There’s a basic need … to properly handle this crisis that has persisted since 2015,” he said.

The presidency comes at a time when the European parliament and commission are in the process of being formed, he noted, adding that Hungary would strive to ensure the smooth operations of European institutions during this period while ensuring that the bloc is able to respond to world events.

The prime minister will symbolically take over the presidency from his Belgian counterpart and meet the president of the European Council on Monday, he noted.

The minister said Hungary plans to organise a summit of the EU and Western Balkans in addition to a Gulf cooperation forum.

Fully 37 formal council meetings are expected to take place in Brussels and Luxembourg, he said.

Politically, Hungary’s presidency “will be successful if, as well as managing the institutional transition, it also shows how it is possible to deliver the change that European citizens expect, based on the outcome of the EP elections…” the minister said.

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