EU now more important than ever, says ALDE leader
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Budapest, November 20 (MTI) – The European Union is more important than ever with the continent facing serious internal and external challenges, Graham Watson, chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), said after the party’s Budapest congress on Friday.
Watson told a press conference that ALDE was a political party focused on building the EU. There are many people in European parties and member states who are stopping the EU from growing, but the integration of European nations is the best path available for security and growth, he said. Having the EU is the best way to respond to both external challenges and internal ones, posed by those who want “an illiberal state”, he added.
Watson announced that ALDE had admitted its first Hungarian member, the liberal party MLP, on Thursday and sought to develop closer relations with Hungary’s Egyutt party.
Anne Brasseur, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said the ALDE congress was well-timed as Europe must now ask itself after the Paris attacks whether it is right to restrict freedom in the name of protecting it.
Re ALDE meeting, is it not true that some of IS terrorists have come into the EU (infiltrated) amongst the incomming immigrants? If this is a true statement then this organisation as with the EU Commissioners and Mrs Merkel are deliberately endangering the lives of their EU citizens.
Further there are now rumours of some 5,000 of IS members already here, even if this was a scare mongering rumour we have all of us witnessed what just a few terrorists can do over a weekend evening.
To avoid this from happening again we must take back control of our borders, all of them, find out the identity of each and every incomer and send back to their point of origin all immigrants who do not have the right of entry including all criminals and economic migrants