Fidesz MEP: Verhofstadt letter on Hungary ‘anti-Hungarian, racist’
Liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt’s letter to Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, contains “grossly slanderous and hot-tempered attacks against Hungary, and is in essence anti-Hungarian and racist,” Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch said in a letter on Friday.
On Thursday, Verhofstadt wrote a letter to Metsola, calling for an extraordinary parliamentary or committee session to condemn Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech in Baile Tusnad, and to call on the European Council and the European Commission to step up the Article 7 procedure against the country.
Verhofstadt said Orban’s “mixed-races” words had been “in clear breach of the norms and values spelled out in the European Treaties and remind us of the darkest days of European history.”
Deutsch said: “It is outragous and unfair that Verhofstadt is using the European Parliament for racist incitement against an EU member state.” At a time of unprecedented challenges facing Europe, preserving the EU’s unity should be of primary importance, he added.
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Source: MTI
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Brexit, which I supported for more than 25 years happened due to the words and actions of 2 men. One was Nigel Farage who articulated the evils of Brussels consistently and clearly.
As i campaigned for Brexit, speaking to thousands of people, encouraging them to vote leave one of the best ways to generate support for Brexit was to talk about Verhofstadt. He was hated to a degree I have never seen before.
For me politics is not personal. I do not like his policies at all but i have no feelings of hatred to him. He is only speaking out loud what all other Brussels people think and believe!