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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 16/09/2022
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Minister: we have done everything the EU has asked

It is important that Hungary’s European partners see that the country has conducted its talks with the European Commission aimed at boosting the transparency of public procurements “in a constructive spirit” over the summer, Justice Minister Judit Varga said in Paris on Thursday.

It is also crucial that Hungary’s partners get a better understanding of the country’s stance on the rule-of-law procedures, the war in Ukraine and the energy sanctions imposed on Russia, Varga told MTI after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron’s Europe advisor and Laurence Boone, France’s state secretary for European affairs.

Varga noted that Hungary had put forward several proposals in its response letter to the European Commission late last month, and was in agreement with its negotiating partners at the talks in Brussels that the transparent utilisation of EU funds was as much in the interest of EU citizens as it was in that of Hungarian taxpayers. “It is a shared interest for which the Hungarian government has been able to provide far-reaching guarantees,” the minister said.

“We have done everything the EU has asked, so we await the positive evaluation,” she added.

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Varga praised the “constructive, positive and solution-oriented tone” of the talks between the EC and Hungary, saying that they had involved Hungarian representatives reacting to “specific questions and proposals” rather than the EC expressing “a general dissatisfaction” with Hungary.

“We’re working to maintain this positive mood and conduct with the European Commission, which right now is part of the solution,” she said. “It’s good if the powerful European countries keeping up with the talks between the European Commission and Hungary know all this.”

Concerning Hungary’s proposals, the minister noted that Hungary will reduce the share of public procurement procedures with a single bidder to below 15 percent, ensure legal remedy against the prosecutor’s decisions in corruption cases, set up an authority to oversee and guarantee the regularity of public procurements at the highest level and develop performance measurement systems that will also assess the cost-effectiveness of public procurements.

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Varga’s talks in Paris also touched on the EU’s sanctions imposed on Russia.

She said the war and associated sanctions had caused Europe’s economic hardships such as inflation, sky-high food and energy prices, and unstable energy supplies, adding that Hungary’s standpoint on energy-related sanctions was based on facts on the ground rather than being ideologically motivated.

“New energy sanctions would prove fatal for central Europe for historical, geographical and physical reasons, while Europe’s interests wouldn’t be served either,”

she said.

The emphasis should be on working for peace instead of enhancing “wartime sanctions”, she said, adding that it should be recognised that sanctions “are more damaging to the side that enforces them than to their target”. Varga said the French were “very pragmatic”. “The notion of the European community projected by President Emmanuel Macron is crucial for the future of Europe,” she said, noting points of commonality in Hungarian and French positions.

Varga travelled on to Madrid to discuss the upcoming Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian EU presidency. Spain takes over the presidency in July next year before handing it over to Belgium in December. In the second half of 2024, Hungary will take over. She said the Hungarian presidency would play a decisive role in the establishment of a new European Commission and Council after the European Parliament elections. “Hungary always backs European solutions that do not ignore people’s interests,” she said.

Source: MTI

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4 Comments

  1. Freedom of People under Democracy : says:
    16/09/2022 at 12:41

    This is BLATANT in the use of PROPAGANDA – arising out of The Fidesz Party, under their Leader and the present Prime Minister of Hungary – Victor Orban.
    The “newly” elected Justice Minister of Hungary – Judith Varga – a High Profiled – Fidesz Party Member, continues to exhibit herself, as a perfect FOIL – in the “veiled” hidden FACTUAL political atmosphere – that is the present picture in Hungary.
    “Veiling” of the European Union – requests – still not received in Brussels from Hungary, don’t pursue to take the “moral high ground” Hungary – because, by this “propaganda” driven falseness of agenda – being delivered / presented communicated – to citizens of Hungary – the Nadir of Hungary – decline of Hungary – economically and financially, the DECLINE – in the rapidly diminishing quality of people’s lives – is INCREASED.

  2. VEDO says:
    17/09/2022 at 00:35

    I may have the answer; What Hungary and Poland (maybe the rest of the V4 too) need to do is “follow Switzerland’s example, also “Land locked” in the EU, and pull out and stay out of the ‘EU”, but stay in the “Shenghen Zone” like they. They can all then travel freely, but not have the “Non-Elected EU” or the “UNION”, screw around with the country and it’s cultural ethics and other values or any thing else for that matter.

  3. Fraught with DANGER : says:
    17/09/2022 at 20:00

    Simple answer to this ‘Schengen Zone” – it ain’t going to put butter on the bread – for 9.6 million Hungarians.

  4. Chuck Eles says:
    18/09/2022 at 01:18

    I find it ludicrous that a sovereign state being Hungary, using it’s own currency waits for funds from the EU. Does Hungary not realize the power they posess? They issue their own currency, tax in their own currency and float their currency on international markets. Why then would they need the euro? I think someone from their finance department should raise this issue. The european unions own rules on member states clearly shows the inequality and strict rules on deficits and debt, because in essence they all use a foreign currency which hamstrings member states from bettering the lives of it’s own citizens.

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