What Anna Júlia spoke about.

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May

2022

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Use of the Pegasus Software by EU Member States against individuals including MEPs and the violation of fundamental rights (topical debate)

Dear Mr President, The European Parliament has taken an important first step in the illegal interception of European citizens, and the Pegasus Commission of Inquiry has been set up. The task of this committee of inquiry, broadcast live in public, is to listen to the Hungarian Minister of Justice, Judit Varga, with whose knowledge and permission civilians, politicians and investigative journalists …

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May

2022

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EU preparedness against cyber-attacks following Russia invasion on Ukraine (debate)

Dear Mr President, The European Union is often criticised for being too slow, too bureaucratic and therefore indecisive and weak. Even if there were grounds for these criticisms and accusations, the Russian aggression against Ukraine has forgotten many negative stereotypes. Europe has shown what it is like to lay aside excessive bureaucracy and start acting like a great power. This is also critica…

8

Mar

2022

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Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Russia invaded Ukraine 12 days ago. In these 12 days, the Russian army has leveled Ukrainian cities and hundreds of thousands of refugees have been forced to head west. What do we see when any of us opens a Russian news portal? Instead of bombed residential areas and attacked nuclear power plants, he is confronted with lies about a peace mission, a Russian peace mission…

7

Mar

2022

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Shrinking space for civil society in Europe (debate)

Dear Mr President, Commissioner Reynders, fellow Members, thank you very much for your supportive speeches. Unfortunately, the approaches of the European Union remain very fragmented in the management of civic space. I am not saying that the EU is not doing anything, but I am saying that what it is doing is fragmented and has serious shortcomings. To what extent, it also shows that in Hungary, thr…

7

Mar

2022

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Shrinking space for civil society in Europe (debate)

Mr. President, please. Residential areas bombarded with heavy artillery, nuclear power plants attacked with weapons, residential areas affected by humanitarian catastrophes, populations sentenced to suffering: Just a few snapshots of the horror that is happening right now in Ukraine, in the neighbourhood of the European Union. Bombs, missiles and machine guns are chasing millions away! Children an…

15

Feb

2022

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A statute for European cross-border associations and non-profit organisations (debate)

Mr President, civil society is the beating heart of our European values and our democracy. Still, in many Member States, civic space is shrinking as governments are taking every step they can to exercise control over society. The non-profit organizations that are threatened by such governments need European minimum standards and legal protection. The report we are debating now is essential because…

19

Jan

2022

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Digital Services Act (continuation of debate)

Dear Mr President, fellow Members, Recently, Viktor Orbán wanted to censor the content on Facebook. Unable to censor it, he decided to flood it with his own propaganda. Not surprisingly, according to its custom, public money makes billions of dollars, bypassing the current campaign spending rules. Today, Hungarian Facebook and YouTube users are confronted with the lies of the government on a daily…

19

Oct

2021

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The Rule of law crisis in Poland and the primacy of EU law (debate)

Mr President, the European Union was founded on the idea that the nations of Europe share a common fate in history. After centuries of meaningless wars, the citizens of Europe sent a clear message to their leaders: instead of hatred which divides, we need to stand united and work together so that we can all prosper. Still, there are autocrats left in Europe who reject this message and defy the wil…

7

Oct

2021

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European Union Agency for Asylum (debate)

Mr President, climate change, extreme poverty, growing inequalities, the rise of illiberal and authoritarian regimes: these are challenges we are all facing in the 21st century. These challenges are different in nature, yet they share the same consequence: if left unaddressed, they all lead to the mass migration of populations. As I address you today, thousands of refugee families are fleeing thei…

5

Oct

2021

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Disinformation and the role of social platforms (debate)

Madam President, I'm sorry. Matchmaking, contact, entertainment, orientation are important aspects of our lives, which are determined by very complex algorithms in the online space. The algorithm, however, cannot distinguish between real and unreal, right and wrong, right and wrong, because the algorithm, following capitalist logic, sees only profit in front of it. If you want to make a profit, yo…

15

Sep

2021

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The Pegasus spyware scandal (debate)

Dear Madam President, In spring 2022, there will be parliamentary elections in Hungary. The stakes of these elections are huge, because despite all the anti-democratic measures of the Hungarian governing party, there is a real chance that Viktor Orbán will be replaced. It is no coincidence then that the Hungarian government will be revealed this summer: the only person in the European Union to use…

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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. This is the umpteenth debate in which we are talking about Viktor Orbán's unjust system. We have been arguing for years, but the Hungarian people have so far received no real help except empty words in their struggle against the inhumane system. Yet this is not only the struggle of the Hungarian people, but the struggle of Europe as a whole, and while Europe is arguing and h…