Fidesz MEPs call for European peace plan
The MEPs of ruling Fidesz are calling for the drafting of a European peace plan to replace the “failed sanctions policy” and weapon deliveries to Ukraine, MEPs Kinga Gál and Tamás Deutsch said in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
Speaking ahead of a plenary session of the European Parliament preparing for an European Union summit at the end of the month, Gal said European decision-makers failed to discuss peace even as the number of victims was climbing.
European leaders, EP President Roberta Metsola among them, urge further weapon deliveries and a joint purchase of weapons, she said. That threatens the EU with being dragged into the war, and raises the spectre of a world war, she warned.
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“We need to broker peace to save lives and forestall further destruction. The conflict has only one solution: a ceasefire and peace talks,” Gál said.
Deutsch said Hungary’s was the “only pro-peace approach in a sea of slogans for war, sanctions and weapon deliveries”. Hungary and the Vatican stand together on their position for peace, he added.
The EU should take active diplomatic steps in the interest of a ceasefire, peace talks, and ultimately peace, rather than promoting an “utterly failed” policy of sanctions and weapon deliveries, he said. To achieve that, Europe should draft a peace plan, he added.
Regarding the corruption scandal affecting the European Parliament, he said corruption in Brussels was “systemic”, affecting the operation of EU institutions, and called for “every detail” of the scandal to be brought to light.
He added that “no meaningful steps” had been taken by any EU institutions on the matter, while the EP president rejected as “unnecessary” a proposal by Fidesz MEPs to adopt asset declarations of the kind the European Commission had found suitable for use in Hungary.
Until European institutions resolve the matter of corruption in Brussels, “we will not accept any lecturing from any EU institutions on corruption”, he added.
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Source: MTI
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Well Mr. Deutsch won’t have to wait long. Very curious what our new Integrity Authority is going to state in their 2022 report, due this week. Also important because the European Union will be watching, this time (I recall there was a similar body in 2013 which did not get very far due to legal information restrictions voted through by our Politicians). Whattaboutism only gets you so far. We have few arrests for corruption in Hungary, and not many serious investigations (we currently have Schadl-Völner – that’s about it – maybe Mrs. Varga will also be heard in that case, which Government is trying to avoid).
Again, our Politicians keep on banging on about the “utterly failed” policy of sanctions and weapon deliveries – without any factual underpinnings. There are entire university departments dedicated to qualify and quantify the impact of the sanctions (look around – lots. Good coverage on this by Deutsche Welle if you want a more accessible format). Our Politicians somehow prefer to look at Rosstat (the Russian Federal State Statistics Service) figures…