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"Mr President, a number of Members from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) have said here that it was a majority that adopted these laws and this constitution in Hungary, but they forget one thing: democracy does not just mean that the majority wins, it also means that the majority changes; that is, democracy is also the sustainability of democracy.
The European institutions, currently so preoccupied with the sustainability of our economies, must also concern themselves with the sustainability of our democracies. This is not, as a Member from the PPE Group said here, an unprecedented debate. To the contrary, it is the European debate
; it is the debate that shapes us all. Do not, therefore, tell us that this is a debate for the Commission either. The Commission has confirmed technical procedures that are offences and the Council does have the ability to use Article 7(2) as a ‘red card’, but Parliament does not use the whole of Article 7. Parliament has the right to use Article 7(1), which is a ‘yellow card’ rather than a ‘red card’. This represents a warning system where there is a risk of breaches of fundamental rights.
I am sure that their intellectual and political honesty means that our follow Members will allow us to go and check on the ground whether or not use of the ‘yellow card’ of Article 7(1) is justified."@en1
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