What Balázs spoke about.

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May

2023

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Breaches of the Rule of law and fundamental rights in Hungary and frozen EU funds (debate)

Mr. President, please. Let's face it, this house has become the prisoner of some extremist, out-of-control MPs who are attacking Hungary day and night. The so-called champions of Europeanism and the rule of law now want to take away from Hungary the Presidency of the Council. In doing so, however, it is precisely you who are grossly violating EU law and the Treaty. If there is a problem with the r…

10

May

2023

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Update of the anti-corruption legislative framework (debate)

Well, I think what's really important is that the procedures against corruption and crime should be useful, should be used and should be efficient. And if a national institution is efficient and it fights corruption, that is good enough and a European central institution will not solve the problem. We have seen this with the Brussels corruption – exactly that example. What we need are efficient st…

10

May

2023

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Update of the anti-corruption legislative framework (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Obviously, all anti-corruption actions and measures are welcome, and this is also a very ambitious package of proposals. It is a draft directive with definitions of criminal offences, criminal proceedings and even sanctions against external actors. But interestingly, one thing is missing from this package, one thing we can't find, we can't find the elephant in the room,…

10

May

2023

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Ukrainian cereals on the European market (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. It is important to state that the whole of Central Europe, beyond strength, provides enormous help to the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people. Hungary has already taken in and helped more than one and a half million Ukrainian refugees, and we are continuously sending humanitarian aid not only to the Hungarian-populated areas, but also to the more remote areas more …

10

May

2023

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Externalising asylum applications and making funding to third countries conditional on the implementation of return agreements (topical debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, instead of the ill-conceived and long-indulgent EU position on migration, Europe needs a policy based on strong border control, the elimination of asylum abuses and support for third countries together. The proposal to examine asylum applications outside of Europe has been a long-standing Hungarian position. All that’s needed now is political will to implement it.…

20

Apr

2023

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Decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations: European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals (A9-0148/2023 - Birgit Sippel) (vote)

Madam President, dear colleagues, the proposals of the migration pact, as they are, as they were accepted in the LIBE committee, will evidently not solve the migration crisis or the problem in Europe. On the contrary, they will create a worse situation than what we have right now. They will create an additional pull factor for migrants, and that’s why we need a fundamentally new approach. Colleagu…

18

Apr

2023

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The need for European solidarity in saving lives in the Mediterranean, in particular in Italy (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, if a certain method to solve a problem doesn’t work, then after some time it’s evident that one stops using that method and tries something else. It’s just human logic. The same is true for tackling migration. This debate illustrates that the way the EU has tried to tackle the migration crisis over the past few years has been a spectacular failure. The fundamental re…

15

Mar

2023

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Combating organised crime in the EU (debate)

Madam President, the fight against organised crime is a typical area where EU cooperation is a necessary and a good thing. I particularly welcome joint actions and the work of EU agencies in the field of police cooperation. We in Hungary are proud to host CEPOL, the training agency for police officers, which has been doing an excellent job. When it comes to organised crime, illegal migration is un…

15

Mar

2023

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Need for immediate reform of the internal rules of the Commission to ensure transparency and accountability in light of alleged conflicts of interests (debate)

Dear Madam President, The corruption scandal in Brussels continues. Every week, after the Socialist Vice-President of the European Parliament, new politicians from Brussels are put behind bars for representing foreign interests in exchange for bribes. Now the European Commission has turned out to be up to its neck in the corruption scandal. The Director-General for Transport has accepted at least …

15

Mar

2023

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Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, the shipwrecks on the Mediterranean are heart-breaking human tragedies. Blaming the legitimate border protection efforts of Member States, however, is a very dishonest and a completely wrong approach. The underlying reason for these tragic events, in reality, is the European indulgence and lack of sanction concerning illegal entries into the Union. It is the pro-migr…

15

Feb

2023

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EUCO conclusions: the need for the speedy finalisation of the Road Map (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, the latest European Council conclusions reflect an important development in the field of migration. Finally, the need for strong border protection has been acknowledged. To quote a classic: ‘Welcome to the real world.’ When all this began in 2015, there was only one European leader who was on the right track. While everybody was talking about quotas and redistribu…

14

Feb

2023

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Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence: EU accession (continuation of debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, the need to take action against any kind of violence against women is beyond dispute. There’s no debate about that. Today's debate, and the debate about the Istanbul Convention, however, is really not about this. It’s about instrumentalising the fight against violence to push a radically left-wing political agenda. It’s about imposing the concept of gender on Memb…

13

Feb

2023

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EU funding allocated to NGOs incriminated in the recent corruption revelations and the protection of EU financial interests (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, this debate, first of all, is not about real civil society organizations. There are thousands of them working in Europe for people. It’s not about them. It is about the political manipulators that have taken the EU hostage. It’s about the shady NGOs that produce politically—biased reports, which are then copy-pasted into European Union positions and …

18

Jan

2023

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Terrorist threats posed by far-right extremist networks defying the democratic constitutional order (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, with this debate the European Parliament once again is making a fool of itself. Month after month, the left is trying to prove that the biggest threat to Europe is the extreme right. Well, do you seriously believe that the laughable attempt of a bunch of German cooks and veterans poses the biggest security threat to Europe today? You can’t be serious about that. I…

18

Jan

2023

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Protecting the Rule of Law against impunity in Spain (topical debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. The Spanish Minister of Justice said here in the European Parliament last week that it is perfectly okay for a politician to be appointed to the Constitutional Court because it is a body of a political nature. He said this after appointing his former minister, a Spanish socialist politician, to the Constitutional Court. Now imagine what would have happened if this had h…

23

Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President. Minister, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, of the 234 migrants who arrived in France on board the NGO Ocean Viking ship, only six are still under the control of the French authorities, or perhaps four today. The others were released and – what a surprise! – immediately disappeared in France. This is the terrifying result of a policy of open borders: hundreds of undocumented peopl…

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Nov

2022

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Assessment of Hungary's compliance with the rule of law conditions under the Conditionality Regulation and state of play of the Hungarian RRP (debate)

Dear Madam President, Those who initiated today's debate seem to be playing the role of guardians of the rule of law here, but in fact they have now become the main enemies of freedom. They represent everything that has gone wrong in the EU: intolerant, aggressive, lecturers and condescending. They ignore the decisions and will of the people, and they cannot forgive the fact that Hungarians, and m…

19

Oct

2022

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Whitewashing of the anti-European extreme right in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, what is this debate really about? It’s not about the whitewashing of anybody; it’s really about the intellectual terror waged by the European left against everybody who dares to disagree with them. They would label as an extremist anybody who is against Islamist migration, who defends the traditional family or defends children from LGBTI propaganda. It shows how hyst…

5

Oct

2022

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The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area (debate)

Thank you, President, dear colleagues, free movement between Member States without internal border controls is one of the most tangible achievements of EU cooperation. If one has to summarise why it’s a good thing to have the European Union despite all its failings and imperfections, then the provision of this fundamental human freedom to our peoples is certainly one of them. So it is ever more im…

4

Oct

2022

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Commission proposal for measures under the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in the case of Hungary (debate)

Dear Madam President, There are crucial moments in the life of every political formation. They often come when there is trouble. The current crisis shows that Europe is not on top of the situation. As a result of the war and misguided European sanctions, energy prices have skyrocketed, inflation, unemployment and a severe economic recession are looming. Millions of European families and businesses…

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Sep

2022

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Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. It is disgraceful that part of the Parliament, together with the Hungarian left-wing MEPs, continues the political slander campaign against Hungary even in this war crisis. Don't you think we have more important things to do? Don't you think that we should be dealing with the crisis, the economic uncertainty that has arisen as a result of the war and the misguided sanct…

6

Jul

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the Czech Presidency (continuation of debate)

Dear Prime Minister, Dear Madam President, The Czech Presidency takes over the leadership of the EU at a time when we have been facing unprecedented economic and security challenges for decades. In this situation, we cannot afford divisions, unnecessary internal disputes. We expect the Czech Presidency to show sobriety and focus on real problems. Member States now need all the tools and resources.…

5

Jul

2022

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2021 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

Mr President, dear colleagues, the European integration of the Balkans is a story of missed opportunities. We all know that the current war in Ukraine is not the first war in our lifetime. Chilling images of the Yugoslav war in the 1990s burnt into our memories. Back then it was the United States, in the end, that brokered peace. Because Europe failed to do so. And still the EU does not seem to ha…

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Jul

2022

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Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner Johansson, dear colleagues, what happened in Melilla last weekend is a real tragedy that evokes the sympathy of us all. Those lives should not have been lost. Border guards, however, cannot be blamed for protecting borders against illegal entries. Blaming those who are only doing their job is the wrong approach. Instead, we have to name those who bear the real politic…

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Jun

2022

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The rule of law and the potential approval of the Polish national Recovery Plan (RRF) (debate)

Mr President, Minister, President, ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the long-awaited decision to approve Poland’s recovery plan. This confirms that all previous accusations were nothing more than political hysteria created against Poland’s right-wing conservative government. Once again, it is unacceptable that the leftists in this Parliament question the accuracy of this decision and continue their…