• Coronavirus in Hungary
  • Budapest
  • Hungary border control
  • HelloMagyar
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
Timmermans: Hungarians to decide next year if they choose community of valuesTimmermans: Hungarians to decide next year if they choose community of valuesTimmermans: Hungarians to decide next year if they choose community of valuesTimmermans: Hungarians to decide next year if they choose community of values
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Breaking News
Support us
Alexandra Béni Alexandra Béni · 28/11/2018
· Politics

Timmermans: Hungarians to decide next year if they choose community of values

2019 EP election European Union Socialists
PM Orbán

Brussels, Belgium. Photo: MTI

European Union citizens will decide in six months if they want a community of values where they share their lives with each other and work together or continue a fight against each other rooted in nationalism, Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission, told Hungarian journalists on Tuesday.

After meeting Hungarian opposition Socialist politicians, he said, “I am calling on all Hungarians to choose the first option, and to work together with us in order to make Europe a better and fairer place where everybody has work with a decent salary and where people work together towards a Europe that is ready to face its challenges.”

Commenting on a procedure launched against Hungary concerning the rule of law, he said he could not imagine Europe without Hungary or Hungary without Europe.

If current policies are maintained in Hungary, the country will become isolated within the bloc, he said. There can be no democracy without a free press or free civil organisations, he added.

Socialist leader Bertalan Tóth said his party was deeply committed to EU and NATO membership and has initiated setting up a “pro-Europe alliance” which would fight for more pro-Europe MEPs in the European Parliament.

“We will continue the fight against all extremist views because we can see that an alliance is being developed in Europe which is against cooperation in the European Union and which has [Hungarian Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán as a major member,” he said.

The Hungarian prime minister “is developing alliances with far right parties” whose policies go against the EU in order to win them power, he added.

Featured image: MTI

Source: MTI

2019 EP election European Union Socialists
Share
Alexandra Béni
Alexandra Béni

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

SUPPORT US

Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up to receive daily updates, news & stories about Hungary!

Select your location below or enter your country so we can deliver our morning newsletters to you in time.


Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.


.

Latest news
  • Ukrainian mayor to Viktor Orbán: “We’ll get you, you bastards!”
  • Budapest Mayor: artificial intelligence is smarter than the Hungarian government
  • Important: Wizz Air cancels all flights to this city
  • Hungary is the envy of the Germans: beer is much cheaper in Hungary
  • Russians represent Hungary at the European Figure Skating Championships
  • The Times named two Hungarian cities among the best for mini vacations!
  • Battery plant construction protested against in Hungary
  • Hungary’s economy will soar next year, says finance minister

About us

Contact us

Copyright rules

© 2023 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved! | Server and development by Svigelj Levente E.V