What Klára spoke about.

Dear House, We have long said that democracy in Hungary must be restored not by the institutions of the European Union, but by us Hungarians. From time to time, however, the European Union can come to the aid of Hungarian democracy when it lays the democratic foundations for the functioning of the institutions. Since one of the most neuralgic elements of the situation in Hungary is the situation o

The EU has faced unprecedented challenges in the recent decade: an economic crisis; a refugee crisis; a health crisis, and now it is witnessing a war in its immediate neighbourhood. The EU has always managed to find solutions and overcome the challenges. Throughout the year, citizens, civil society, politicians and EU institutions came together to dream: to dream of a shared future for the Europea

Madam President, dear colleagues, Brexit was built on lies. And finally we can address the white elephant in the room, because we all knew that those lies by far-right politicians were financed, backed, supported by Russian propaganda. Finally we can talk about it fairly. What we see is that right-wing populists promised everything to the British people – prosperity, freedom – and then left them w

Dear Mr President, Nobody wants to live a dorm-like life at 30. We just grow out of it. And yet: Today, in Hungary – and also in Europe – young people are increasingly forced to live in the same room because they are unable to pay rent and have no chance of living. And why is that so? Because what we call the real estate market in Europe and Hungary today is a completely distorted system based on

The truth is that the only thing the Fidesz government can be proud of is that Matolcsy was able to buy real estate for children and their associates in New York and Dubai. Two-thirds of the money you have listed has gone to the richest 10%, and do you know what the consequences of your policy have been? Under Fidesz, real estate prices in Hungary have risen by 300% – my fellow Members, here in th

The Fidesz MEP refers to the good traditions of the Member States as the housing policy of Viktor Orbán's government. My question, Mr. Representative, is what example does Europe want to lead by? Let's say with the example that the construction of new apartments under the Orbán government has practically halved, as it was before? Or with the example that more than 3,500 billion forints were poured

Dear Madam President, Putin is at war in Ukraine, but he is actually attacking the European Union. Sabotage operations, bomb-loaded drones, attacks on our power grid, disinformation campaigns are slowly becoming commonplace, and the European Union must be strong enough to stop the aggressor. Because we want peace. But peace is not that one great power can take anything from another with a weapon.

You are absolutely mistake and I'm not going backwards, I'm going forwards. I'm looking for a society where social justice is an everyday experience. What we see in the last 30 years is that there is a new elite growing out all over not only Europe, in the United States as well, big companies, multinationals, tech companies having fortune like nobody had in history before, and seeing people, milli

Mr President, dear colleagues, do you know what is the biggest lie nowadays in Europe? The biggest lie is that you can achieve and have decent wealth, you just have to work hard enough. That's a lie. That's not true anymore. Today, what we know as the so-called trickle-down effect – that you have to support the big ones, the strong ones, the rich ones, and then their wealth will trickle down to th

Mr. President, please. How tired I am of the lies of the populist right! Sovereignty, national interest, they roar, while only baking their own roast. And no, by the way, they are calling on those big billionaire companies and multinationals who love to weaken Europe, because only a strong Europe can protect the planet and the people from their hunger for profit, without noticing that the world ar

Mr President, dear colleagues, there are things we do agree on in this House, or at least the majority: we need a stronger, a bigger and a more resilient Europe. But there are things we do not agree on: how to achieve this. The European right is always talking – in the last two years at least – about simplification, deregulation. They call it competitiveness, but what I see is that multinationals

Dear Madam President, Do you want to fight poverty? Then instead of statistics, data, tables, look into your eyes. That's what I do. Last Monday in Dunaújváros, the once prosperous industrial city of Hungary, an elderly 89-year-old woman with bird bones came to me, who lives with her disability pensioner daughter, and her daughter's pension is less than 100,000 forints. I'll translate it: a little

Dear Madam President, There is a sentence, a Hungarian proverb, that you can get to know a bird by its feathers, a man by his friend. Let's see who Robert Fico's best friend is. Viktor Orban. We can also see what connects them. Why are they such good friends? First of all, they both love to talk about the nation, but when you have to do something about it, you somehow run out of action, you run ou

Madam President, I'm sorry. Competitiveness, deregulation, simplification on the Hungarian and European right, these words have been flying back and forth in recent months. But somehow in the end, this whole debate is always about how to make it worse for the workers, how to pollute the environment better, how to make more profit for the capitalist. Work more for less. – the company is immediately

Madam President, dear fellow Members, everybody can see how fast our world is changing around us. Natural disasters, artificial intelligence taking away the jobs of millions, wars. And just look what Donald Trump has done in the last two weeks, it's a disaster as well, even if it's not a natural one. In times like these, politicians have actually two options. First, what we do on the left and the

Madam President, I'm sorry. This debate, for us, is not just about principles and not about an abstract concept, but about our everyday life, about the security of our everyday life. The rule of law causes us gastric insecurity every day, and the absence of the rule of law ruins our lives. We became the poorest country in Europe in 15 years because a one-party, two-thirds majority destroyed our co

Dear Madam President, Let me tell you a story, especially to my fellow Members on the right side of the European Parliament. Viktor Orbán has been telling us about competitiveness for 15 years. On the altar of this, he sacrificed the Labour Code, created the "Slave Act" and supplied Europe's cheapest and most vulnerable workforce, primarily to billionaire corporations. It has virtually eliminated

Dear Madam President, On June 28, the last summer of the Orbán regime began. Nothing will be more like it was before, as the streets of Budapest were filled with an unprecedented crowd to show that Orbán is not the same as Hungary, and that this squeezed-out right-wing ideology has not yet utterly infected the souls of the Hungarian people. A lot of people have done a lot of things to make sure th

Dear Madam President, The majority of the European Parliament has stood up for the freedom, rights and democracy of the Hungarian people countless times, and I thank them from the bottom of my heart, because perhaps it is because of them that we European Hungarians and Democrats feel that we are not alone. But I must also tell you my disappointment, because I feel that in recent times, when we are

Madam President, I'm sorry. Today I just wanted to be happy that the agreement on strong European defence was reached last week, but unfortunately for us Hungarians, last week the world became a more dangerous place than before. Because while Europe has joined forces, because it understands that only here can its citizens be safer, in the meantime Viktor Orbán has taken another step towards leadin

Dear Mr President, We all agree that Europe must be stronger, richer, and we are working on that, or at least the majority in this House agrees. The question is, what does Europe's wealth mean? Does it mean the wealth of a few billionaires, the wealth of a few large corporations, a multi-company, oligarchs, or the wealth of hundreds of millions of people in Europe? This report, which will be befor

Dear Mr President, I love my kids. Yet the moment comes when they must be let go, because an independent life, an adult, responsible life requires an independent dwelling. You can't have children, plan a family, or even think about the future when you don't have a place to live. And yet I see that for the masses of young people it remains only a dream. I was shocked to hear the representatives of

Dear Madam President, Well, I can tell you, Prime Minister, that was awkward. It was awkward to listen to him try to explain, but there's something he's right about. European citizens, European politics and the European Parliament are not interested in the programme of the Hungarian Presidency. He doesn't care, because he is considered frivolous, because we have heard clichés – and the ceiling has