Opposition Jobbik: Fidesz is risking Hungary’s EU funds
Fidesz should not risk losing Hungarian EU funds which “belong to Hungarian citizens”, Brenner Koloman, the opposition Jobbik party’s deputy group leader, said on Sunday.
The ruling Fidesz party’s parliamentary majority has endorsed an “extreme anti-European political statement” that “puts EU funding at risk”, Koloman told an online press briefing on Wednesday. He said Jobbik rejected extreme positions, so it holds that neither a United States of Europe nor “the extreme anti-European standpoint” of Fidesz was in the interests of Hungarians.
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The Jobbik politician said 12 years ago Hungary became a “single-party state approaching authoritarian countries as Russia, Turkey and China, while Fidesz went as far as attacking members of the German or Dutch parliaments.”
Jobbik allies itself with the position of the founding fathers of the EU — Christian European politicians who believed in the social market economy and good cooperation between European nations, he said. “The rule of law is an old European conservative value,” he said, calling for “balanced civic democracy” and action against “Fidesz corruption”. Only then will Hungary secure its EU funding, he added.
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Source: MTI
The Treaty on European Union sets out the conditions and principles to which any country wishing to become a member of the European Union (EU) must conform. These are:
1. stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities;
2. a functioning market economy and the ability to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the EU;
3. the ability to take on the obligations of membership, including the capacity to effectively implement the rules, standards and policies that make up the body of EU law (the ‘ acquis ’), and
4. adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.
Why our Politicians would have an issues with conforming with these simple conditions and principles, or why citizens are not more vocal about adhering to these is anyone’s guess. Assume the tales of window dressed statistics, the Land if Milk and Honey, Unicorns, a European Voldemort, etc. are somehow more appealing?
FUN READ – even if it is just a quick one. How would these (foreign) principles apply to our Politicians, mutatis mutandis?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-7-principles-of-public-life/the-7-principles-of-public-life–2