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Former Hungarian President Áder calls the European Parliament “unnecessary”
The European Parliament “is unnecessary in its current form” as it does not fulfil its tasks adequately, former president János Áder said at the Károli Free University in Budapest on Thursday.
At a talk with László Trócsányi, the rector of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Áder said that the European Union’s effectiveness was a more important issue that whether it was popular. “The trends are concerning” regarding the EP’s effectiveness in fulfilling its tasks, he said.
As an example, Áder cited a declaration proposal on banning the use of cyanides in mining that was submitted to the EP after cyanide leached into the water of the River Tisza in 2000. The EP had adopted the proposal and bumped it up to the European Commission “but nothing happened since”, he said.
Asked about the UN climate conference (COP), Áder said the conference was “inept political tourism”, and brought no solutions. He said G7 countries should make decisions together on the matter.
Council of Europe warning to Hungary concerning jobs
Hungary has a number of job creation programmes in place aimed to integrate people living in segregation or deep poverty, the Council of Europe’s committee of social rights has said in its annual report published on Wednesday. According to the report, the Hungarian schemes were aimed to increase the number of community-owned rental housing through construction or upgrade, among other purposes.
The report said the average European family spent 19.7 percent of its income on housing in 2023, but added that the ratio was 38.2 percent in the case of families below the poverty line. Furthermore, it said the ratio was especially high in Greece (62.4), Denmark (57), Sweden (48.1), Czechia (46.7), Germany (45.8), Austria (41.6) and Hungary (41.2).
Concerning actual measures, the report highlighted the Hungarian government’s increasing the minimum wage by 16 percent from 2022 to 2023, adding that wages in the health sector had increased by 72 percent between 2019 and 2022. The report also mentioned Hungary’s public works scheme as aimed to protect the purchasing power of needy families and job seekers in the provinces. Authors of the report also mentioned the Hungarian government’s gradual reintroduction of 13th month pensions between 2020 and 2023, adding that pensions had gone up by a composite 14 percent on average in 2022 and by 15 percent in 2023.
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The whole E.U. is unnecessary.
Seriously, aside from easier movement of European people and good/services across member countries’ borders, can anyone claim with a straight face that life today in, say, Germany or France is better than it was in the 1990s!?! Those countries are a shadow of their former selves, largely thanks to the E.U. and other megalomaniacal globalist-socialist projects.
Abolish the whole thing and start again. In fact, it should be a rule that international organizations get dismantled every e.g. 40 years and rebuilt from the ground up.
In fact it is the Hungarian parliament which has been unnecessary because Fidesz has been ruling by decree for over four years now. It is the Orbanistan dictatorship.
Hungary is unnecessary for the EU as well