Speaker Kövér: the new European Commission works against Europe’s interests

The new European Commission “is now promoting in Europe the interests of private powers outside Europe” leading to further “political, economic, and social destabilisation” of the community, László Kövér, the speaker of Hungary’s parliament, told a session of the Patriots for Europe European parliamentary group in Budapest on Friday.

According to Kövér, Europe is “under a symbolic political, economic, and cultural carpet bombing”, while “the threat of an actual bombing of our continent is increasing by the day.”

Kövér said Patriots were “the first hopeful green sprig on the tree of Europe pruned by harmful hands” adding that the group had “a mission from the Lord of History” to create the conditions to rebuild Europe in a political, economic and cultural sense. He said patriotic forces in Europe were “protecting common sense against abnormality, at the level of ideologies”; they were “protecting patriotism against globalism at the political level, and protecting nation states from EU federalism and against plans to build an European United States at a legislative level.”

Kövér also called for cooperation with patriots in the United States to protect “democratic states as institutions of legitimate public power” from “private powers lacking democratic legitimacy, seeking to subject democratic states in a clandestine way.”

The Patriots for Europe adopted a political declaration urging a stricter migration policy.

Kinga Gál, the party group’s vice-chair, said the issue of migration was in need of the most urgent action, adding that a “migration crisis” threatened Europe’s future.

The Fidesz MEP said that before the EP elections the “pro-migration majority” in Brussels had forced through “old, bad solutions” contained in the migration pact, which encouraged migration rather than seeking to prevent it. European migration policy must be put on a completely new footing, she said.

The Patriots for Europe’s proposals call for effective external border protection and a complete ban on illegal border crossings, she said. Only people who have the right to enter and stay in the EU should be able to do so, she added.