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"Mr President, Europe has reached an historic turning point. Millions of people making a living from an honest day’s work want a fundamental change. They want to combat the gross injustices of neoliberalism and global big capital. These include family farmers, smallholders, small business owners and government employees. To be able to do this, they are in huge need of human rights. I am sorry that the commissioner is not here now to hear me speaking in defence of human rights and civil liberties. These rights are necessary so that people can express their views, in other words, enjoy the freedom of opinion, the right to free assembly and freedom of speech without being labelled as fascists, as actually happened here today in this chamber, or shot in the eye, intimidated by police brutality, maltreated, put in prison or subjected to sham criminal proceedings.
When all these events took place in Hungary in autumn 2006, we turned to you for you to do something. You did nothing. Why not? I would ask Parliament’s Vice-President, Mr Schmitt, to confirm what happened, why we turned to you. It was because of what happened at a meeting organised by the Fidesz party, a civic party…"@en1
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