What Klára spoke about.

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HU Written Statement

European Media Freedom Act (debate)

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…

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EN Written Statement

The follow up of the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

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…

16 Sep

2026

HU Speech

Urgent need for EU support to Ukraine against Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression (debate)

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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. …

20 May

2026

EN Answer

Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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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…

20 May

2026

EN Speech

Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate)

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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…

19 May

2026

HU Speech

EU governance under pressure – institutional responses to global challenges (debate)

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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…

28 Apr

2026

EN Speech

Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate)

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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 …

11 Feb

2026

HU Speech

Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy (debate)

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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…

11 Feb

2026

HU Speech

Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (debate)

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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…

22 Jan

2026

HU Speech

A new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate)

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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…

19 Jan

2026

EN Speech

Just transition directive in the world of work: ensuring the creation of jobs and revitalising local economies (debate)

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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 …

17 Dec

2025

HU Speech

Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (debate)

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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…

24 Nov

2025

HU Speech

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

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9 Sep

2025

HU Speech

Cohesion policy (joint debate)

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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 …

9 Jul

2025

HU Speech

Lessons from Budapest Pride: the urgent need for an EU wide anti-discrimination law and defending fundamental rights against right-wing attacks (topical debate)

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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…

18 Jun

2025

HU Speech

Freedom of assembly in Hungary and the need for the Commission to act (debate)

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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…

11 Mar

2025

HU Speech

White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

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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…

22 Oct

2024

HU Speech

Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

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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…

9 Oct

2024

HU Speech

Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes (debate)

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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 …

9 Oct

2024

HU Speech

Presentation of the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency (debate)

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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…

18 Sep

2024

HU Speech

The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. The first word is thank you. Thank you to the many people out there, especially the tens of thousands of volunteers. Because we always know, see and feel that we cannot protect our houses and homes alone. We need neighbors, friends. Sometimes we need complete strangers. And that's why this flood shows how much we need each other in Europe. We can close ourselves off to …

8 Feb

2024

HU Speech

Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)

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Dear Mr President, Almost half of 14-year-old children in Hungary are functionally illiterate. I'll say it another way: Nearly 50 percent of children finish eighth grade without understanding what they are reading. And this has dramatically deteriorated under Viktor Orbán's administration. Ladies and gentlemen! We can talk here about a European educational space, where we give all European childre…

2 Oct

2023

HU Speech

Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 79)

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Madam President, I'm sorry. You know, we Hungarians can sometimes perform very special miracles. Nothing proves this better than the fact that today the Hungarian researcher Katalin Karikó was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Katalin Karikó, whose research has helped us to fight the coronavirus pandemic, and the years to come will show how many more millions of lives on Earth will be saved by …

19 Oct

2022

HU Speech

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

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Dear Mr President, When we talk about the far right, we usually have very important ideological debates about democracy, xenophobia, racism and authoritarianism. Let me shed some light on the far-right, illiberalism, on the other hand, as Hungary has been governed by the far-right, illiberal Orbán for 12 years. And look what he's done in 12 years. Tens of thousands of teachers, students and parent…

13 Sep

2022

HU Speech

Adequate minimum wages in the European Union (debate)

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Mr. President, please. Dear fellow Members, We're making history! Years from now, this House will be looked back on as an end to an unjust world in which the countries of Europe competed with each other to make the labour force ever cheaper and ever more vulnerable. It was you, it will be you, and I think we can be proud of ourselves, proud of the European Parliament. But let me speak first of all…