What Balázs spoke about.

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May

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, thank you very much for the floor. The Article 7 procedure has been going on against Hungary for almost four years without any tangible results. There’s a clear reason for this: the accusations are not factual; they are not of a legal nature but clearly and only political. Hungary has come under heavy criticism for years because we stand up for our sovereignty and…

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Apr

2022

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Violations of right to seek asylum and non-refoulement in the EU Member States (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for years we have been listening to the lies of the European left that Hungary does not help refugees. The current war shows the absurdity of these allegations. We help people in need, but we reject illegal economic migration and the violation of our borders. This atrocity shows very clearly the difference between people fleeing the war and economic migrants …

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Apr

2022

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Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Madam President, on Sunday, Hungarian voters gave Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz government a landslide victory. No political force has had a victory greater than this in the past 30 years in Central Europe. That’s a fact. This election result does not only mean the spectacular failure of the Hungarian opposition, but it was also a resolute and clear rejection of all the political intervention attemp…

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Mar

2022

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Debriefing of the European Council meeting in Paris on 10 March 2022 - Preparation of the European Council meeting 24-25 March 2022 (debate)

Madam President, every effort that we make in this situation has to be directed towards creating peace, reaching a ceasefire first and then a peace agreement as soon as possible. We should avoid any escalation of this terrible situation, which is terrible already. The bloodshed must end, and so we must make our decision based on that overarching goal. Sanctions are undoubtedly necessary. We have c…

8

Mar

2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, for years, we have been listening in this House to the false accusations that Hungary was not helping those in need. The tragic consequences of the current war in Ukraine clearly prove those accusations wrong. They were nothing but malicious lies. Hungary does help refugees who are now fleeing our neighbouring Ukraine from this terrible war. The whole country has moved as one to prov…

7

Mar

2022

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Shrinking space for civil society in Europe (debate)

Mr. President, please. The free and undisturbed operation of civil society organisations is an important European tradition. However, there is no reason why these organisations should receive special treatment or privileges. In any case, it is not acceptable for some civil society organisations to deliberately break the law, possibly ignoring instructions from the authorities. In recent years, NGO…

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Feb

2022

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The Rule of Law and the consequences of the ECJ ruling (debate)

Madam President, many of us are celebrating today’s verdict as if it were a bright success for European cooperation. The reality is that today’s decision leads to a dead end. It is an historical mistake to use the European Union as a facade to enforce a single ideology. It is unacceptable to undermine the sovereignty of Member States, to disregard the division of competences and to force everyone …

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Dec

2021

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Plans to undermine further fundamental rights in Poland, in particular regarding the standards of the European Convention of Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (debate)

Madam President, it is ridiculous that almost no plenary session has passed here lately without a debate on Poland. Well, perhaps it is frustrating to some of you how our central and eastern European Member States, like Poland, are confident, successful and stable, and they know what they want, and they are not afraid to make decisions based upon their own competences. They do not need tutoring fr…

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Dec

2021

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The European Commission Guidelines on inclusive language (topical debate)

Madam President, political correctness and gender madness have hit Europe once again, hard. The Commission apparently wants a Europe where women cannot be called women anymore and men shouldn’t be called men, where we are advised not to use names like Mary and John, and where we are supposed to say winter holidays instead of Christmas holidays. Well, we in Central Europe have a strange feeling tha…

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Nov

2021

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Fundamental rights and the rule of law in Slovenia, in particular the delayed nomination of EPPO prosecutors (debate)

Mr President, the Left in this house is cooking from the same recipe all over again, isn’t it? The recipe is the following: take a successful, conservative right-wing government, come up with unfounded political attacks, disguise them as legal issues, and then put it up on the agenda here as a rule-of-law debate. We’ve seen this before: mostly it’s been about Hungary and Poland, now it is Slovenia…

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Nov

2021

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Legal migration policy and law (debate)

Dear Mr President, My fellow Members! Today's report by the European Parliament is another example of the immorality that has been going on in this House for a long time. You are hypocritically portraying yourselves as human rights defenders, while pushing for the draining of poor countries in these reports. They claim that immigration is good for everyone, that it is economically beneficial, and …

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Oct

2021

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The first anniversary of the de facto abortion ban in Poland (debate)

Madam President, today’s debate is yet another example of the European Parliament’s leftist and liberal forces interfering in the matters of a sovereign Member State. Yesterday, you were attacking the decision of the Constitutional Court of Poland in a more than four-hour-long debate, but you failed to realise that the Polish court decision was a direct consequence of your own harmful policies. Yo…

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Sep

2021

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United States sanctions and the Rule of law (continuation of debate)

Madam President, dear colleagues, the credibility of the fight against corruption can only be preserved if it’s not misused for political purposes. Yes, corruption is an existing problem in our Member States, and yes, all Member States should step up action against it with all available means. But this should never become the tool of political power games. It is hard not to see how the US all of a…

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Sep

2021

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Media freedom and further deterioration of the Rule of law in Poland (debate)

Dear Madam President, Today's debate is yet another example of the European Parliament misinterpreting its role, playing a political tribunal and constantly demanding all sorts of sanctions. They always find an excuse to attack those who think of something other than you in the spirit of diversity and acceptance. Now it is Poland's turn. This debate was originally supposed to be about an amendment…

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Sep

2021

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EU Blue Card Directive (debate)

Dear Mr President, If there is a political lesson to be learned from the migration debates of the last six years, it is that there is no united European position on this issue. Immigration has a significant impact on a country’s culture and identity and can bring about a radical transformation of European societies, so it is not a matter of common European rules and stronger Brussels powers, but o…

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Jul

2021

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Breaches of EU law and of the rights of LGBTIQ citizens in Hungary as a result of the adopted legal changes in the Hungarian Parliament - The outcome of 22 June hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (debate)

Mr. President, please. It is also difficult to find words for the madness that is happening in the European Parliament today. How can it be, my fellow Members, that you here refer to European values and law, while ignoring the treaties and the division of powers they contain? They cry out for violations of EU law, while they themselves abuse them in the service of their own political interests. Th…

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Jul

2021

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Use of technologies for the processing of data for the purpose of combating online child sexual abuse (temporary derogation from Directive 2002/58/EC) (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. A new information flow space has been created on the internet, where content harmful to children is spreading rapidly. Pedophile crimes and networks, online sexual abuse, have taken on a new dimension. Criminals have faster and easier access to victims, but it is harder to track them down. In such a radically new situation, it is necessary to act quickly and effectively…