EU Commissioner calls for continued Article 7 procedure against Hungary, Poland
The European Union’s Article 7 procedures currently under way against Hungary and Poland should be upheld until issues around the rule of law in those countries are resolved, Didier Reynders, EU Commissioner for Justice, told the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE), in Brussels late on Monday.
Reynders said, however, that he hoped the governments of the two countries would give consideration to finding a solution to outstanding issues.
Helena Dalli, Commissioner for Equality, referring to a Hungarian bill on stipulating that fathers must be male and mothers female, called on Hungary to observe international law regarding the family.
Balázs Hidvéghi, MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, told MTI that Monday’s session had been “the usual, one-sided performance” by left-liberal MEPs, who “regularly attack Hungary”. He insisted that the Article 7 procedure was politically motivated, and “entirely based on lies”.
“Expropriating the rule of law for political purposes will undermine trust between member states and seriously impact EU unity,” he said.
Concerning family law, Hidvéghi said such regulations were exclusively a national competence, adding it was “absurd” that the issue had been put on the committee’s agenda. “Using the rule of law as an excuse, they are seeking to prescribe what we should think about families, marriages, or raising children,” he said.
Anna Donáth, MEP of the Hungarian opposition Momentum Movement, said accused the Hungarian government of “deliberately undermining human rights”. She said that
the draft constitutional amendment concerning sexual minorities served a political purpose to “divert attention from another proposal concerning public funds”.
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Source: MTI
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Hungary and Poland – need to tread lightly and carefully.
The political agendas taken by Hungary & Poland, have “sizable” merit to their arguments.
They must not be viewed as – Latin “divide et impera” – divide and conquer, in the positions they are taking.
We know the “weird” mind set that continues, in the European Union – the real wheelers and dealers, that through a process of infestation in the European Union, that sits himself, on the the ceremonial throne used in the American “fantasy” drama titled Game of Thrones, surrounded by the bureaucratic “lap dogs” or “gofers” that are faceless spineless yes men.
Hungary & Poland – tread and walk carefully.
For he may fall off his throne, or as is – continue to be shamed and disgraced for his views of the world, which must be continually tramped and crushed, proving the wrongness of his ideas and philosophies of the way of the world – its Future.
To whom do I refer ?
Don’t need to be a Rhodes Scholar to answer that question ///
Reynders and the EU should mind their own business and not push ABNORMAL behavior down the throats of those who do not want that, PERIOD! No-one should make political games out of some minority issues, there is a reason they are a MINORITY! The MAJORITY decides!
There are rumours that this is precisely what Szajer Jozsef was discussing at his ” hard work ” session, also known as sex orgy party in Brussels last Friday…. The party took such a toll on his psychological and physical conditions that he had to resign….