Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-10-21-Speech-3-103"
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"Mr President, I would like to remind the House that the European Parliament should not accept resolutions which apply double standards. This is why I am quoting an example from my country – from Hungary – where the Finance Minister filed criminal proceedings against a journalist because he did not like what he was writing about him.
This is why I think that mentioning the Italian Prime Minister in your text filing lawsuits against Italian and European newspapers and not mentioning this case – I think what happened in Hungary is more serious – applies a double standard. So I would call on our colleagues on the Left here not to vote against this amendment because that would only demonstrate and make clear that your activity is nothing but a show – a show bullying the Prime Minister of a country where there is no Left.
The Government is not from your family, but you do not accept the same standards when there is a Socialist government. So the amendment follows along the right lines.
‘whereas the European Parliament shall not accept double standards; whereas, in order to put political pressure on journalists disclosing corruption cases linked to high-ranking officials and ruling party politicians, the Government administration in Hungary has recently introduced steps to launch criminal proceedings against such members of the media;’ – namely Mr Tamás Pindroch, the journalist from the
‘whereas bearing in mind in particular that criminal proceedings were launched against the journalist who was investigating the scandals of a high-ranking former member of the government and one of the candidates for European Commissioner; whereas this has resulted in an atmosphere where the press is under political pressure in Hungary’.
I ask you to support this amendment in order to keep your credibility. It might make it clear that you are not bullying a particular person whom you do not like and who does not share your political views, but you really are supporting the freedom of the press in Europe."@en1
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