Hungarian foreign minister: Hungary wants a Ukraine peace summit with Putin
Reuters writes that Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, talked about a peace summit with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine.
Szijjártó talked about the plan to the Russian state-owned news outlet, RIA Novosti. He said he would like the future peace conference to have Russia and Ukraine at the negotiating table. That would contradict the concept of the Summit on Peace in Ukraine, organised in Switzerland, where Moscow was not invited.
EP rejects PfE initiative to condemn political violence
The Patriots for Europe group initiated a debate in the European Parliament on Wednesday, aiming to condemn political violence in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, but the EP voted down the proposal, Fidesz MEP Kinga Gál said in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
Gál, who also serves as the vice-president of PfE, slammed the EP for “not doing anything against political violence which is also present in Europe”, pointing to the assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and the case of Ilaria Salis, an Italian activist who was detained in Hungary on assault charges until she was elected MEP, “who, despite almost killing an innocent man, is now sitting in the EP lecturing us how we should behave.”
Regarding the EP vote on Vice-Presidents on Tuesday, Gál said in a speech ahead of the agenda that it was “disrespectful of the 18 million voters behind PfE, and of the fundamental rules of democracy and the rule of law” that the EP had voted against both PfE candidates.
“It is unacceptable that the positions the Patriots are entitled to basically went to a communist extremist,” she said, adding that legal action was “not off the table”. “We must fight for what we’re entitled to under EP regulations.”
According to parliamentary minutes, the initiative was rejected with 339 votes against, 119 in favour and 15 abstentions.
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“Entitled”. Our Politicians are – in Hungary. Took them years of actions to achieve supremacy. Then – they always point at their majority and say “tough nuts” to anyone with a different disposition. However – when the shoe is on the other foot (and remember their “We Will Rule the EU” slogan before the elections) – uh. Well. They still insist on wanting to rule, even without the people´s mandate.