Europe’s Future Comes Before Personnel Questions, Says Orban
(MTI) – Leaders of the European Union need to make decisions concerning the next few years of the community before personnel questions are put on the agenda, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Brussels on Tuesday.
Answering a question who he wants to see as the next European Commission president, Orban said that the European People’s Party’s winning the recent European elections should not “automatically lead to concrete nominations”.
Orban insisted that cardinal issues should be resolved first, and added that “constitutional identity” was the most important such issue for Hungary. He argued that European institutions have recently overstepped the boundaries of their authority defined by EU law, a practice that “we must put an end to”. That is why, he added, Hungary does not support automatic nominations.
Terms of the EU treaty must be observed with the “implacability of the law” and “sneaky” attempts to change the treaty must be stopped, Orban said. He insisted that if the European Council approved of the nomination of the winning party’s candidate to the post, it would put in place an automatism, which would be equal to changing the treaty without authorisation.
Concerning critical remarks by European Socialists and Liberals over his Fidesz party as well as Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, Orban called for more respect to “Europe’s nation states, its parties, and sometimes, their leaders, too”.
Orban will attend an informal dinner of European heads of state and government in the evening.
Photo: Prime Minister’s Office – Barna Burger
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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