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"Mr President, as a Hungarian patriot and as a European I have felt ill at ease during today’s debate. The Orbán Government fully deserves the sharp criticism, but such criticism also casts a shadow over my country. I am aware that when the European Commission is trying to make the Hungarian Government see reason it by no means intends to offend or even less punish the Hungarian people, and this is the way it should be. Still, even though the Hungarian Government has taken some measures that go against European values I find it excessive for anyone to call Viktor Orbán a Hugo Chavez, a Putin of the Puszta or a dictator. It is true, unfortunately, that we can no longer call him a true democrat either, but even the Hungarian Prime Minister is entitled to personal dignity.
I ask President Schulz, President Barroso and the Danish Presidency to make it clear to Hungarian citizens that the EU is not dictating or issuing commands, that this is not Europe’s style. The European Union is not an external power; after all, we Hungarians are part of this Community as well. We, too, make up the Union. As with every family, in the European Union it is customary, or even a moral obligation, to warn a family member who has strayed from the right path. Such straying hurts the member concerned the most, but it also harms the Community as a whole.
If in Hungary people are worse off, can be stripped arbitrarily of their acquired rights and their pension entitlements, and if millions of workers are punished while the rich are rewarded by a tax system cemented by a two-thirds majority, then it is mainly Hungarian society that suffers. Indeed, it is the Orbán Government that is punishing the Hungarian people and not the European Union it condemns. It is first of all in the interest of Hungary and only secondly in the interest of the European Union for Hungary to be once again characterised by a genuine rule of law, true freedom of the press, a responsible economic policy that avoids state bankruptcy and a government that can be removed from office if it has lost the trust of the majority. As a responsible patriot I wish for Hungary to once again be democratic and economically prosperous, and to follow a system of values that is both national and European. This is in the common interest of both Hungarian and European citizens."@en1
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