Hungarian House Speaker Kövér: Arrogance of Brussels bureaucracy betrayed Europeans
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Certain national interests require that people surpass ideological divides and preserve sovereignty together, against the “arrogance of Brussels bureaucracy that has betrayed Europeans”, House Speaker László Kövér told Polish weekly Sieci in an interview published on Monday.
Kövér said the Visegrad Group had been the most productive at a time when it was led by the prime ministers of the Polish PiS, Slovak Social Democrat Smer, the liberal Czech ANO movement and Hungary’s Fidesz, which then sat in the European People’s Party in the EP.
Fidesz sees PiS as an ally, he said. “It was a mistake to let the Russian-Ukrainian conflict become the watershed issue between Poland and Hungary, as that excluded the possibility of accepting and reconciling differing approaches and national interests.”
The EU was originally built on such solidarity, he added.
Commenting on PiS losing the Polish elections, Kövér said the results had hinged on the image the left liberal media had broadcast about the party.
Fidesz had “set up a right-wing television” after its defeat in 2006, in cooperation with “nationally minded capital”, and the channel was instrumental in “uncovering the dirty politics of the Socialist-Liberal coalition after 2006”, leading to their resounding defeat in 2010, he said.
The people and government have to work harder to figure out how to detach from Brussels and EU. Foreign dictators are not wanted.