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"en.20120118.23.3-282-000"2
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"I would, first of all, like to express my solidarity towards Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, to whom Mr Swoboda went so far as to suggest that he should take a leaf out of the book of the freedom-loving Václav Havel. The Prime Minister of Hungary should not have to act as an advocate of his country, which has been put in a pillory, but should be among us as a guest of honour of the European Parliament. However, I am convinced that not so far from now there will come a time when, as Havel, he too will be greeted in accordance with his merits as a prominent personage of the Hungarian democratic transition. Those who are trying to put Hungary and the head of its government, Viktor Orbán, on a wall of shame, have no idea about the period and nature of the fight against the communists who clawed their way back into power twice after 1994. It is, first of all, Viktor Orbán and his
Party to whom the imperishable merit for rising up from a defeated position and making the communists fall once and for all in an act comparable to a second change of regime belongs. In today’s Hungary the post-communist regime that was vetoed by a two-thirds majority of Hungarian voters continues its rear-guard struggle against the national public will and seeks to make the efforts of a democratically elected Orbán Government impossible in both the internal and the foreign political arena. I am quite familiar with the anatomy of counter-revolutionary communist restoration from Romania’s case. It is an indication of the maladjusted condition and moral crisis of the European Union, which is beset by a complex crisis, that instead of far-reaching solidarity and support it exposes a Hungary ruined by socialists and pseudo-liberals to infringement procedures and undeserved prosecution. I am worried for Europe, and I am worried for Hungary."@en1
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