Minister: Hungary not to allow “Brussels dictatorships”

Gergely Gulyás, PM Viktor Orbán’s chief of staff, said that the rule-of-law mechanism was politically motivated. The European Commission, he added, wanted a government in Hungary that would allow “Brussels dictatorships” to scrap the current scheme capping utility bills and ditch the child protection law.

Responding to a question regarding the Advocate General’s opinion on Hungary’s suit challenging rule-of-law conditionality, he said the European Court’s decision seldom diverged from the preceding opinion, but it was necessary to wait for the final outcome. At the same time, the Advocate General’s opinion reaffirmed that generalised rule-of-law issues should not lead to sanctions, and this indicated that a strict, legal interpretation of the matter would be considered important.

He said that an agreement on Hungary’s recovery fund hung in the balance and the question of its resolution before April depended on whether the European Commission’s wanted to intervene in Hungary’s general election. Government pre-financing of such programmes, he added, could still go ahead.

Sexual propaganda targeting children increasingly aggressive?

Gulyás said

economic relations between Hungary and Germany would not be affected by the formation of a new German government,

adding that 85 percent of German companies in Hungary were making new investments here.